
Republican State 
Convention 


COLUMBUS, OHIO 

JUNE 1, 2, J899 


Published by Authority of the Republican State 
4 Ex&eutive Comrpittee.^; 


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„ JOHN r. Malloy, .Charles dick, 

Secretary,- Chairman.^- . 


Secretary.:^ ; Chairman. 


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THE JOURNAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS 


—OF THE— 

Republican State Convention 

COLUMBUS, OHIO. 



JUNE 1, 2, 1899. 



Published by Authority of the Republican State 
Executive Committee. 


JOHN R. MALLOY, 

Secretary. 


CHARLES DICK, 

Chairman. 






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Akron, Ohio. 


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PROCEEDINGS OF THE 


REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION 

Held at Columbus, Ohio, June i, 2, 1899. 


. Couumbus, Ohio, June 1st, 1899. 

The Republican State Convention assembled at the Audi¬ 
torium, in pursuance to the following official call: 

‘ ‘ The Republicans of Ohio are requested to meet in delegate 
convention in the city of Columbus on Thursday and Friday, 
June 1st and 2d, 1899, for the purpose of nominating candidates 
for the Offices of governor, lieutenant-governor, auditor of state, 
treasurer of state, attorney general, one judge of supreme court 
and member of the board of public works. The basis of repre¬ 
sentation will be one delegate for every 500 votes cast for Charles 
Kinney, Republican candidate for secretary of state at the 
November election, 1898, and one for each fraction of 250 or 
over. Upon this basis the representation of the several counties 
in the convention will be as follows : 


Adams. 

Allen. 

Ashland. 

Ashtabula... 

Athens . 

Auglaize. 

Belmont. 

Brown. 

Butler.. 

Carroll. 

Champaign. 

Clark. 

Clermont.... 

Clinton. 

Columbiana. 
Coshocton .. 


6 

6 

4 

11 
8 

4 

12 

5 
8 

4 
7 

11 

7 

7 

14 

5 


Uorain. 12 

Uucas.. 24 

Madison. 6 

Mahoning. 12 

Marion. 5 

Medina. 6 

Meigs. 8 

Mercer. 3 

Miami. 10 

Montgomery. 28 

Monroe. 3 

Morgan. 5 

Morrow. 5 

Muskingum. 13 

Noble. 5 

Ottawa. 3 



































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Crawford. 4 

Cuyahoga. 58 

Darke. 8 

Defiance. 4 

Delaware. 7 

Erie. 8 

Fairfield. 6 

Fayette. 5 

Franklin. 34 

Fulton. 5 

Gallia. 6 

Geauga. 4 

Greene. 8 

Guernsey. 7 

Hamilton. 86 

Hancock. 10 

Hardin. 8 

Harrison . 5 

Henry. 4 

Highland. 7 

Hocking. 4 

Holmes. 2 

Huron. 8 

Jackson. 7 

Jefferson. 9 

Knox. 7 

Fake. 5 

Lawrence. 7 

Licking. 9 

Logan. 7 


Paulding. 6 

Perry. 7 

Pickaway. 5 

Pike. 4 

Portage. 6 

Preble. 6 

Putnam. 4 

Richland. 8 

Ross. 10 

,Sandusky. 6 

Scioto. 8 

Seneca..*. 8 

Shelby. 4 

Stark. 20 

Summit. 15 

Trumbull. 10 

Tuscarawas. 8 

Union . 6 

Van Wert . 7 

Vinton. 4 

Warren. 7 

Washington. 10 

Wayne. 7 

Williams. 6 

Wood . 11 

Wyandot. 4 

Total.813 

Majority.407 


The delegates from the several congressional districts will 
convene on Thursday for the purpose of choosing vice-presidents 
of the convention and members of the various committees, in¬ 
cluding the state central committee. The convention will be 
called to order on Thursdaj^ at 4:00 o’clock p. m., for temporary 
organization, receiving reports of district committees, and for the 
transaction of such other business as may be properly brought 
before the convention. 

In counties where not already selected, the delegates shall be 
selected in the several counties of the state in such manner as 
the county central or controlling committee may designate, at 
least three days before the holding of the state convention.” 




























































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The Hon. Cyrus Huling of Columbus, Chairman of the State 
Central Committee, called the convention to order, and announced 
the Columbus Glee Club, which appeared and sang Columbia and 
other songs. 

Prayer was then offered by the Rev. S. S. Palmer, pastor of 
the Broad Street Presbyterian Church, Columbus. 

Mr. Huling then addressed the convention as follows : 

“The past twelve months have been a history-making year. 

A war for the liberty of an alien race closed almost before it 
was begun, disastrously to our foes, nearly bloodless to us. 

Two hostile fleets destroyed without the loss of a ship and 
but a single life. 

An empire stretching almost around the globe suddenly be¬ 
came ours and the destiny of ten million souls thrust upon us in 
a day. 

From an isolated position in the family of nations, now made 
arbiter of the rights of man. 

From a foreign trade limited to the ports of the Atlantic at 
a bound we have spanned the Pacific, and the commerce of the 
Orient lies at our feet. 

A flag, always the emblem of freedom, now first known and 
respected the world around as the emblem of power. 

At home as well as abroad this has been a wonderful year. 
More furnace fires light the skies than ever before existed in any 
nation under the sun. 

The largest foreign export trade any nation ever had was 
ours last year. More labor is employed at remunerative wages 
than ever before. Business that dropped and pined under the 
blighting effect of a Democratic policy now blossoms everywhere. 

Farm and factories alike feel the rejuvenating effect of re¬ 
vived business and are pushed to the limit to supply their pro¬ 
ducts to the world. 

A treasury that not many years ago was drained of gold is 
now overflowing with the precious metal, placed there by the 
confidence of the people in the integrity and good sense of the 
Republican party. • 

These blessings and this glorious page of history the Repub¬ 
licans of Ohio, with due reverence to the providence of Almighty 


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God, ascribe to the policy, the integrity and the wisdom of Wil¬ 
liam McKinley and the Republican administration at Washington. 

Coming still closer home, the administration of the affairs of 
the state by Governor Bushnell has shown a high order of busi¬ 
ness ability and integrity, of which the state may well be proud, 
and above all, we have a just pride in the part Ohio took in the 
late war under the leadership of her patriotic governor. 

Gentlemen of the convention, the Republicans of Ohio are 
deeply in earnest this year. They feel that the prosperity of the 
country, the expansion of our commerce and the honor of the flag 
they love depend upon the indorsement of William McKinley this 
year by the triumphant election of the candidate nominated at 
this convention and his renomination and re-election next year to 
the high plane he now holds. 

The people love McKinley for his kindly ways, his firmness 
in action, his wisdom in council, and they love his policy because 
they have seen it revive industry, awaken confidence and restore 
the honor of the flag. 

As a corollary to this the Republicans of Ohio demand that 
the voice of faction shall be stilled. The success of the party and 
its principles at the polls is a thousandfold more important to them 
than the success of any man. Let the people untrammeled, de¬ 
cide public questions and select their candidates and they will de¬ 
cide aright. 

I believe I know the sentiment of the Republicans of Ohio 
in this matter, and if I should utter the prayer that is at this mo ■ 
ment uppermost in their minds it would be a prayer that those 
here assembled should by no act or word put in jeopardy the pros¬ 
perity of this land or the glory of the flag, but that all may be so 
done that when this convention adjourns it shall be the firm res¬ 
olution of every Republican here and throughout Ohio trium¬ 
phantly to elect this ticket here nominated.” 

Mr. Hiding then announced the temporary organization as 
follows: 

Hon. W. S. Kerr, of Mansfield, Chairman. 

Hon. E. L. Lampson, of Ashtabula, Secretary. 

Hon. Joseph L. Adler, Cincinnati, Assistant Secretary. 

Hon. Samuel Trost, “ “ “ 


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Hon. C. D. Holderbrant, Wilmington, Ass’t Secretary. 

Hon. D. T. Cowan, St. Clairsville, “ “ 

Hon. C. M. Shafer, Canal Fulton, “ “ 

Hon. C. J. Olds, Burton, “ “ 

Hon. C. C. Connell, New Eisbon, “ “ 

Hon. E. P. Hubbell, Geneva, “ 

Hon. Fred Bader, Cincinnati, Sergeant at Arms. 

Mr. Kerr being presented, and on taking the Chair addressed 
the convention as follows: 

“Gentlemen of the Convention —It is with profound 
appreciation that I accept the distinguished honor of presiding 
over the temporary deliberations of this great Republican conven¬ 
tion, and for it I return to the state central committee and to the 
convention itself my gratitude and thanks. I do not delude my¬ 
self with the belief that I shall here and today sound the key¬ 
note of the campaign we are about to enter. Its keynote has been 
sounded already and elsewhere than here. It has been sounded 
in Washington and in Columbus—in the patriotism and heroism 
of the administration of President McKinley and in the wisdom 
and honesty and business of the administration of Governor Bush- 
nell. 

Upon the record of these two splendid Republican adminis¬ 
trations, at the end of this campaign, we shall win a Republican 
victory for the Republican party. It is my modest province to 
mention a few of the facts of this record made great and glorious 
in ‘the arduous greatness of things done.’ 

The present national administration began under circum¬ 
stances and conditions most unauspicious. Four years of Demo¬ 
cratic rule had bankrupted the national treasury and increased by 
many millions the public debt. The money standard of the na¬ 
tion was threatened with overthrow, and chaos reigned in the 
American financial world. Foreign owners of securities public 
and private believing that we designed to repudiate a portion of 
the debt hurried their securities across the ocean and carried back 
our gold. Our industries were prostrated and millions of work¬ 
men out of employment. Bankers and business men by the scores 
and hundreds sank into insolvency under pressure of Democratic 


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times. Engines and cars stood rusting upon every railroad. 
Agriculture languished, and in spite of toil and sweat, in spite of 
well-tilled fields and bounteous harvests, in spite of flocks and 
herds upon a thousand hills, the farmers grew poorer and poorer 
under the Democratic tariff policy. The balance of trade was 
against us, and our money was going abroad to pay the wages of 
foreign workmen and dividends on foreign capital. 

'cr- Confronted and surrounded by these conditions of distress 
and disaster, William McKinley was inaugurated president of the 
United States. It was his work and the work of the Republican 
party to create out of the wreck a new condition—a condition of 
confidence that we were an honest people and intended to pay our 
debts in the best money in use in the world, dollar for dollar— 
confidence that this great government could pay its daily and or¬ 
dinary expenses without borrowing money—confidence that we 
could open our shops and factories and put to work our idle work¬ 
men at good wages; confidence that we could resurrect and re¬ 
habilitate our farmers, revive business and transportation, and 
plant our monetary system upon a basis as firm and enduring as 
the innate honesty of the people. This was a colossal undertak¬ 
ing with doubt and distress and demoralization on every hand. 
How it has been accomplished is answered in the plenitude of 
prosperity which fills every field and mart and mine and shop and 
home in the land. Even the dyspeptic Populist admits that we 
are prosperous and his Democratic ally is so busy gathering in 
the shekels that he has forgotten to growl. The Cincinnati En¬ 
quirer, which cannot be suspected of giving partial testimony fa¬ 
voring the Republican party, had in its issue of May 18 of this 
year the following: 

‘We are doing an amazing domestic business. Since the 
first of the year loans and discounts have been a little over $100,- 
000,000 greater than for the same time last year and in the entire 
year a little over $300,000,000. Since the first of the year, in¬ 
dividuals have prospered so greatly that they have been able to 
deposit in our banks $200,000,000 more than they deposited in 
the corresponding months of last year. ’ And I may add that the 
blisiness of last year showed a corresponding increase over the 
year before. 




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Using the Enquirer’s word, I may say that we are also do¬ 
ing an ‘amazing’ foreign business. Last year we sold $600,- 
000,000 more than we bought. Statistics show how we have 
been gradually, under the wise policy adopted and executed by 
the Republican party, increasing our capacity to supply ourselves 
and at the same time increase our trade with foreign nations. In 
the nine months ending March 31, 1893, we were selling abroad 
$113,000,000 in manufactured articles and buying $270,000,000. 
In the nine months ending March 31, 1899, we sold abroad $242,- 
000,000 in manufactured articles and bought $194,000,000. The 
showing as to the iron and steel industries in simply marvelous. 
In 1880 we bought from abroad $71,000,000 of iron and steel 
manufactures and sold only $14,000,000. In 1898 we bought 
only $12,000,000 and sold $70,000,000. We were not only sup¬ 
plying ourselves, but we were capturing the markets of the world. 

In 1893 th e end of the second Cleveland administration we 
were buying abroad $4,000,000 a year in iron and steel more than 
we were selling; in 1898 we sold more than five times as much as 
we bought. 

But this was not all the Republican party had to do. It had 
the financial business and industrial rehabilitation of the country 
to accomplish, and with this, almost immediately, were compli¬ 
cated grave questions of foreign intercourse and finally war. For 
three years before we came back to power, a poor, weak, down¬ 
trodden and oppressed people within sight of our flag had been 
struggling for liberty. I am not going into the merits of that 
contention—it is not for me to settle the question of right 
between Spain and her colonies, but I do know that these people 
were human beings with brains and hearts and nerves. I know 
they could feel and aspire and suffer and love. They had a liter¬ 
ature and upon its pages was written the story of our revolution. 
We revolted because we declined to pay a few pennies of tax upon 
tea, and they followed our illustrious example. They had read 
the Declaration of Independence, and they proceeded to declare 
likewise. They had read of Lexington and Concord and Bunker 
Hill and Yorktown, where this republic was born, and so far as 
the Castilian blood is capable of it they tried to follow in our 


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footsteps. We had set them the ‘pernicious example’ of revo¬ 
lution, and we were bound at any rate to indorse the principle. 

The island of Cuba, under its beautiful verdure, is a mighty 
sepulchre in which lie the victims of ceaseless warfare. If all 
the drops that lave its shores were tears, they would not express 
the pity for the women and children who have starved to death. 
If all its soil were gold, it would not pay for the blood shed in 
maintaining foreign sovereignty over an American island. 

For nearly three years we maintained the strictest neutrality . 
We saw our trade with Cuba substantially destroyed without 
complaint. We expended of the public funds large sums in 
maintaining an attitude of impartiality between the belligerents. 
We endeavored to secure the release of our citizens held in prison 
through the inoffensive instrumentalities of diplomacy. The 
skeleton hands of women and children were stretched out to us 
for food. The peace and repose of the Western world demanded 
intervention, and as the guardian of civilization, the duty of in¬ 
tervention fell to us. When the time arrived, the mighty voice 
of the nation spoke the decree which for months the hearts of the 
people had been forming, that ‘Cuba must be free.’ And the 
president, desiring peace with honor, but war if need be, 
entered the decree, and sent the army and navy to execute it. 

During this most trying period, the Democratic brethren 
were constantly clamoring for war—immediate war—war to the 
hilt—nothing but bloody war would satisfy their sanguine 
desires. Their representatives in congress voted with us for the 
$50,000,000 appropriation to prepare for war and from that on, 
with the army in the field, and the navy on the sea, their repre¬ 
sentatives gave their support to no other measure to support the 
w T ar. 4 My country right, but right or wrong, my country,’ 
should have governed their conduct; notwithstanding this war 
ended in victory and we are not here to criticise or complain. It 
was an American war, waged, not for conquest or domain, but 
for humanity, and the brilliant achievements of our soldiers and 
sailors, adding new luster and renown to American arms, belong 
to the whole country. New stars have been set in the American 
constellation—beside Grant and Sherman and Sheridan and 
grand old Farragut shine the heroes of Manila and Santiago. 


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There should be no partisanship in patriotism, and I am glad 
that there are few in the republic whose hearts do not swell with 
pride in seeing the flag of our country floating over territory so 
wide and universal that the rays of the evening sun have not 
died upon its shining folds until the morning beams flood with 
light its Stars and Stripes of glory. 

Through the war and its results, our country will take its 
true position toward the civilization and progress in the future. 
In the days to come, when the great events of the last hundred 
years of American history have become tradition, when the deeds 
of the heroes of this century are woven into national song and 
story, three mighty figures will stand above the American world 
and above all the rest: The first will be Washington, the second 
Lincoln, and the third McKinley. Greatness does not depend so 
much upon the greatness of the man as upon the greatness of the 
things done. Measured by this standard, Ohio’s son will be one 
of the mighty triumvirate. The administration of George Wash¬ 
ington created the republic, the administration of Abraham 
Lincoln preserved it, but the administration of William McKin¬ 
ley, maintaining all its insular and provincial advantages, gave it 
the rank and prestige, the magnificent diadem of the world— 
power, and for this the administration of McKinley will rank 
with the administrations of Washington and Lincoln. 

In some quarters grave doubts are being expressed as to the 
future of the republic. So far as these expressions emanate from 
Democrats, and they are largely from that quarter, they simply 
express the normal conditions of doubt and distress which are 
inseparable from the deranged organism and the melancholy soul 
of the Democratic party. A few others whose souls are not at¬ 
tuned to the music of progress are declaiming against the wrongs 
and dangers of expansion and imperialism. The normal con¬ 
science of this nation will permit no wrong, and if we enter upon 
the policy of so-called imperialism, it will be founded upon such 
principles of right and justice to ourselves and others as will 
commend it to the enlightened conscience and judgment of the 
world. 

They say it is unconstitutional and un-American to extend 
our territory. A distinguished federal judge recently said : 


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‘ The people of the United States without breach of faith to the 
promises of the past, or serious danger to the expectations of our 
future, can hold permanently all or a portion of the territory that 
has been occupied by our troops during the progress of war. ’ I 
subscribe to that doctrine ; it was not a judicial utterance, but it 
announced the law. If this is not law, constitutional and moral 
obligations required that we should give back to France the 
Louisiana territory reaching from ‘the Lake of the Woods to the 
Balize.’ ' We should give back Florida and Key West to Spain, 
Texas and the California country with all its gold to Mexico, 
Alaska to Russia and Hawaii to Queen Lil, and when this had 
been done, I presume our diminished and diminutive possessions 
would suit the throbbing ambition of these gentlemen that we 
should not become an imperial power. 

We must now take a position of influence in the affairs of 
the world. If we would, we can no longer remain insular; the 
boundaries of the continental belt will no longer restrain the in¬ 
fluence and energies of eighty millions of people. I do not mean 
that we should go out into the world seeking territorial conquest; 
I do not mean that we shall become in any way entangled with 
foreign countries or interested in the internal polity. We shall 
not do this. The influence I would wield would come through 
the force and potency of a splendid navy and splendid merchant 
marine. I would send ships of war and ships of peace bearing at 
their masthead the Stars and Stripes and the white banner of 
peace into every part of the world and upon every billow of the 
sea. I would send the products of our shops and factories, of our 
mines and farms, upon American ships manned by American sea¬ 
men wherever there were people to buy and water to float the 
ships. To do this, we must have naval and commercial bases 
abroad. On the other shore of the Pacific, five hundred millions 
of people are emerging from barbarism; civilization will multiply 
their wants and desires a thousandfold, and civilization will sup¬ 
ply these wants and satisfy these desires. Our flag now floats at 
Honolulu, on the Aleutian Islands and in the bay of Manila. 
With these footholds in the Western ocean, we shall secure our 
share of the impartial commerce of the Orient and add to our in¬ 
dustrial supremacy of the seas. 


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A nation like ours cannot live for itself alone nor confine its 
sphere of influence within its territorial boundaries. This repub¬ 
lic, planted in the suffering and sacrifices of the fathers and pre¬ 
served by the heroism of their decendants, turned their hemi¬ 
sphere from despotism to a land of freedom. When the decla¬ 
ration of American independence rang around the world, there 
was not a free government from Cape Horn to the Polar sea, and 
not an American flag from the Arctic circle to the Straits of Ma¬ 
gellan. But now the flags of free and independent peoples float 
over both continents and the isles of the sea. What shall be 
done with all the territory that comes to us as the fruits of vic¬ 
tory in the Spanish war I know not, but I do know that every 
foot of it which can be retained with honor and justice and which 
will be to the advantage and glory of the United States will be 
retained. 

The history of the Republican party is an open book. In its 
40 years of existence and«-power, there is not an act it would hide 
and not a principle it would deny. It is proud of its record from 
the first victory in i860 to this hour. It is proud of its great 
men and prouder still of the splendid growth of the country un¬ 
der its administration. It is proud of the monuments erected in 
shops and factories, in schools and churches, in towns and cities, 
on prosperous farms, in happy homes and on battlefields, but 
prouder still of having set American labor free from the thrall of 
foreign domination and having made it comfortable and indepen¬ 
dent. The Republican party points to its jewels blazing in the 
mighty edifice of history as its warrant and justification for ask¬ 
ing to be continued in power. 

The Democratic party never points with pride—it promises 
for the future. If the Democratic brethren were getting up a po¬ 
litical pantheon, they would be a little embarrassed at the dearth 
of modern gods. They have no heroes until they reach Jefferson, 
three quarters of a century in his honored grave at Monticello; 
Cleveland they have disowned, discarded and thrown overboard 
to sink or swim. Buchanan they have been trying to forget, but 
he sticks to their memories like a bur. Pierce and Polk they 
have forgotten, and even old tradition of Jacksonian simplicity has 


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been lost in the Oriental and transatlantic splendor of the Crokers 
and the McLeans. 

The Democratic party never had any principles—it had had 
some feelings which it mistook for principles, but it never keeps 
its feelings or principles long enough to discover the difference. 
In 1892 it solemnly declared that the'whole trouble with the coun¬ 
try was high prices, and that the sole remedy was free trade. In 
1896 it as solemnly declared that the whole trouble with the coun¬ 
try was low prices, and the sole remedy was free silver. They 
declared that the country would never prosper again without the 
free and unlimited coinage of free silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 
without the aid or consent of any other nation. We amended the 
Democratic proposition a little—for free and unlimited coinage of 
free silver we substituted good old Republican protection, and with 
that, ‘without the aid or consent of another nation,’ we have 
been doing what the Enquirer says is an amazing business; in 
fact, I think we could nominate the general and universal condi¬ 
tion of the country as one of exuberant prosperity without exag¬ 
geration, and notwithstanding the Democratic brethren said it 
was impossible without the free coinage of silver. 

The Republican party always fulfilled its pledges and fulfilled 
them promptly. Its promise in 1896 was for the enactment of a 
tariff law which would protect American labor and American in¬ 
dustry. Within 15 days of the inauguration of McKinley con¬ 
gress was assembled in extra session, and in 15 days more the 
Dingley tariff bill had passed the house. In due time the bill 
passed the senate, and under its protecting and stimulating influ¬ 
ence our country was rescued from the distress and disaster of 
Democratic free trade. 

We promised in 1896 that, if given the power, we would make 
such amendments to our currency laws as would correct their evils 
and plant our monetary system upon a basis sound and enduring. 
No power was given us to make amendments until the election of 
the present congress; and within 40 days after it had come into 
existence, a Republican committee of its members met and pre¬ 
pared a plan in fulfilling that pledge. As a member of that com¬ 
mittee, I am not at liberty at this time to disclose even the sub¬ 
stance of its determination, but as a member of the Republican 


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party I am at liberty to declare what the Republican party pro¬ 
poses to do, now that it has power in both branches of congress 
and in the executive. It proposes to enact in the form of law the 
gold standard and then it proposes to keep every dollar in use in 
the country up to that standard. It is going to do this so that 
hereafter no doctrinaire or mountebank, catching the people off 
their guard, can thrust disorder and demoralization into out 
financial affairs at home and discredit us abroad. 

The Republican party is not satisfied with the extensions of 
the civil service of President Cleveland. We believe that the 
present status of the civil service does not reflect an honest 
effort to inaugurate genuine civil service, but rather a successful 
attempt to wrest from the Republican party the legitimate results 
of its victory. 

No one, either Republican or Democrat, seriously doubts 
that Cleveland’s order of May 6, 1896, and its subsequent execu¬ 
tion bringing over 30,000 employees into the classified service and 
preparatory to and the result of the downfall of his party in the 
election of that year. The order was promulgated after the 
Cleveland Democracy was on the plank , it was not until after 
his party had adopted a new creed'and was searching for a new 
god that Cleveland conceived the idea of tying the hands of his 
successor, whether he should be a Republican or a new dispensa¬ 
tion Democrat. 

During Cleveland’s first term as president and up to the 
time he was defeated, he extended the civil service to 1939 places, 
but in December, 1888, after the election of his .successor, he in¬ 
cluded the railway mail service, aggregating 5320 persons. 

In three years and three quarters of General Harrison’s 
term as president, he added to the classified service 1000 places 
only, but after his defeat, and on Jan. 5, 1895, when the tread of 
the returning Democratic army, hungry and thirsty, sounded 
in his ears, he rescued from its clutch 7110 places by extension. 

During the first two years of Cleveland’s second term he 
only classified about 6,000 places, but when the handwriting 
appeared upon the wall, he outran the most industrious civil 
service reformer by covering in one order nearly 35,000 public 
servants. So we see, my fellow citizens, that the present civil 


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service has grown, not from the wholesome promptings of public 
sentiment, not in the sunshine and plenitude of power, but it has 
crept upon us from behind the shadows of party defeat, and that 
these extensions sprang from no higher or holier motive than a 
disposition and a desire* to wrench from a triumphant foe the 
fruits of victory. No party ever extended civil service materially 
in the day of victory. The Republican party is in favor of civil 
service, but it is against the prostitution op the system for the 
purpose of perpetuating in office Democratic partisans who have 
no right or claim to the protection of the law, and whose 
appointments were not made upon examination or merit, but 
upon the recommendation of a county committee or the captain 
of a hundred. 

Before the extensions of the civil service were made by 
Cleveland, the most expert political manipulators had filled the 
departments at Washington with Democrats. They did not start 
fair. Civil service is supposed to be non-political, and to give 
every citizen without regard to his position, color or political 
affiliation, an equal chance for office. Let me show you how the 
present status accords with that theory. In May, 1898, Hon. 
F. A. Palmer, the head of the public printing office, reported to 
the senate committee, then engaged in investigating the civil ser¬ 
vice, that in the printing office there were 2412 Democrats and 
500 Republicans. Now, my fellow citizens, for a system whose 
basis is said to be equality and a fair chance, I submit that the 
original capitalization was too largely Democratic. Nothing in 
the history of American arms has yet equaled Sherman’s march 
through Georgia, but a facetious senator once said that the next 
thing to it was walking through the interior department during 
the reign of Hoke Smith. *• v 

More than. 10 years ago the Republican party in national 
convention declared as follows : ‘We declare our opposition to 
all combinations of capital, organized in trust or otherwise, to 
control arbitrarily the condition of trade among our citizens; and 
we recommend to congress and state legislatures, in their respec¬ 
tive jurisdictions, such legislation as will prevent the execution 
of all schemes to oppress the people by undue charges on their 
supplies, or by unjust rates for the transportation of the products 


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to market. We approve the legislation of congress to prevent 
alike unjust burdens and unfair discriminations between the 
states.’ This declaration was within a year of the organization 
of the first trust in the United States. 

In the congress following, John Sherman, then a senator of 
the United States, introduced in the senate a bill with a title as 
follows: ‘To declare unlawful trusts and combinations in 

restraint of trade and productions. ’ On June 26, 1890, this bill 
became a law with the following title : ‘ An Act to Protect 

Trade and Commerce Against Unlawful Restraints and Monopo¬ 
lies.’ In many of the states the Republican party passed laws 
making unlawful these combinations and monopolies. Republi¬ 
can officials have been industrious and persistent in prosecuting 
violations of these anti-trust laws, and under decisions rendered 
in the prosecutions many of these combinations have been dis¬ 
solved. The supreme court of the United States, a tribunal far 
above politics or political influences, but a majority of whose 
members are Republicans, rendered decisions which dissolved the 
Joint Traffic and Trans-Mississippi Associations, two gigantic 
railroad combinations intended to control and fix railroad 
charges. Other cases are pending wherein the anti-trust laws 
will be enforced. 

In Ohio Republican attorney generals have been faithful and 
industrious in prosecuting all combinations or trusts in violation 
of being the friends of the trusts. The Republican party is 
against all illegal or wrongful or injurious combinations of capital, 
whereby it is intended to control prices and suppress competition, 
and it will enact laws and elect officers to execute them until 
these combinations are broken up, and their existence rendered 
impossible. 

The Democratic party claims to be in favor of shortening the 
hours of labor; so are we. I suppose, however, the Democratic 
party has the least record of this subject of any party in exist¬ 
ence. I concede that when it has been in power the working¬ 
man had less work and more rest than he ever had under Republi¬ 
can rule. The Republican party has been the friend of Ameri¬ 
can labor from the time it passed the Morrill tariff law 7 in 1861 to 
this time. Under its policy of protection to home labor and in- 


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dustry the wages have increased and the hours of labor decreased. 
Its policy put into laws crowned the workingman with indepen¬ 
dence, filled his home with comfort and luxuries, educated his 
children and made him a happy man. 

The Republican party is now, as it has been since the close 
of the civil war, in favor of just pensions for Union soldiers and 
it is now as it has been since the close of the Spanish war, in fa¬ 
vor of just pensions for those who fought the Spaniards and the 
fever in that conflict. Any policy which does not deal justly 
and liberally with the soldiers of the Republic will not meet our 
approbation. 

The Republican party is grateful to every man and every 
committee and every organization that contributes to its success 
and its glory. The Republicans of Ohio are proud of Ohio’s great 
senators, Foraker and Hanna, both of whom have added luster 
and renown to the great old John Sherman, and to him in his re¬ 
tirement this great convention sends greeting and love. Espe¬ 
cially should be remembered on an occasion like this the Republi¬ 
can state executive and state central committees, under whose 
wise direction and by reason of whose faithful labors last year we 
won a great Republican victory. 

And now, my Republican brethren, let us have peace. Ri¬ 
valry and competition for place or position or power may have 
strained a little the bonds of our affection; but it must not, it can 
not, break the ties which bind us to the Republican party. Now 
and here in this splendid Republican presence, looking into the 
faces of our heroes living and looked upon by the pictured faces 
of our heroes dead, in the name of the Republican party and all 
it has done for our country, let us strike hands and following the 
lead of McKinley and Foraker and Hanna and Grosvenor and 
Bushnell and the rest, let us go forth from this convention united 
to victory.” 

Senator J. B. Foraker being called for, responded as follows : 

‘ ‘ Gentlemen of the Convention :—Under other circum¬ 
stances I should undertake to respond to such a call as has been 
made upon me at some length, particularly at this time, for just 
now, as has been well indicated by our chairman, there are a 




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great many very agreeable subjects for a Republican to talk 
about to Republicans. But I recognize that you are not here to 
listen, but to act. In addition to that fact I think I can say in 
all consciousness that you have just heard one of the finest key¬ 
note speeches it was ever my fortune to hear in any convention. 
It has grandly covered all the great questions about which we are 
■concerned. In view of all this, I shall content myself with 
simply in a few sentences undertaking to emphasize the exhor¬ 
tations he has laid upon you and in which I join with all my 
heart, that now the great duty resting upon the Republicans of 
Ohio is to get together. United, we are invincible ; divided, we 
are beaten in advance. It is my duty, therefore, here and now, 
to highly resolve that we will frame the very best platform it is 
possible for us to make, expressing in it Republican ideas and 
policies and purposes, and that we will next' nominate as our 
candidate for governor the very strongest man we can find, no 
matter what his name may be, no matter from what county or 
section he may come, no matter what his past affiliations in our 
party may have been, and plant him upon that platform, and 
then go forth from this convention hall to stand together shoulder 
to shoulder against the common enemy for his triumphant 
election. 

Gentlemen of the convention, if I may be pardoned for 
detaining you another minute, let me say that there has not been 
•during our generation and politics a more important election than 
that which is now going on. Neither has there been an election 
more easy for us to carry than this approaching election. At the 
same time never has there been an election we could more easily lose. 
We want to stop here for a moment and consider the importance 
of this election ; it grows out of the fact already adverted toby our 
temporary chairman that Ohio is the home of William McKinley. 
He is our president now and in all human probability he will be 
our leader and our candidate in 1900. It is the duty of the Repub¬ 
licans of Ohio to see to it that this great commonwealth of ours 
shall proudly head this column in this year’s battle, and especially 
in the battles of next year. I cannot think, my fellow-Repub- 
licans, of anything more deplorable than disaster to us next year. 
It would be turning back this splendid wave to which the chair- 


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man has been adverting. It was no fanciful sketch of the chair¬ 
man when he told you of the conditions that obtained 
when this administration came into power, and of the 
conditions that now obtain. When William McKinley 
took office our country was indeed prostrate, our in¬ 
dustries paralyzed, our labor idle. It is now prosperity 
everywhere. This did not happen by accident—it did not simpfy 
come to pass. It is directly due to the, fact that the control of 
this country passed from Democracy to Republicanism. The 
application of Republican ideas and policies and administration of 
our public affairs. There have never been greater triumphs in 
peace than those which have just been fought. And as the 
chairman has indicated to you, our country has been equally 
great in war. We can prove that by Spain. It changed the 
map of the world. I would be glad to stop and talk to you about 
it, but I refer to it now only from the fact that it has brought 
new responsibilities and questions to be solved. Upon their solu¬ 
tion depend the honor and good name of the American public. A 
mistaken policy applied to them would bring to our government 
shame and humiliation. Our prosperity and success in these im¬ 
portant matters are at stake. If we would hold on to this pros¬ 
perity and if we would make sure of a rightful solution of these 
questions, we must take no chances; we must not now turn this 
great work over to Democracy, but keep it in the hands of the 
Republican party. The way to do this is for us, and especially 
us, the Republicans of Ohio, the home of President McKinley, to 
not only stand by him and his administration next year, but also 
this year in this campaign. And here and now is the place to 
commence. Let us be determined from this moment until the 
last moment of this convention that we shall here organize not 
for defeat, but for triumphant victory for next November.” 

Senator M. A. Hanna being called for, responded as follows: 

“Gentlemen of the Convention —I assure you that I ful¬ 
ly appreciate the honor of this ovation. Standing in this pres¬ 
ence I am forcibly reminded to remark, as I heard it said yester¬ 
day or the day before, I believe by George Cox, that no man was 
as great as his party. I have listened to three splendid speeches, 
and from the sentiments expressed and from the responses given y 


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I have made up my mind that the Democratic brethren are not go¬ 
ing to run this convention, and, therefore, I am emboldened to 
say that I agree with that sentiment—every line of it. I agree 
to the peace proposition and a full measure of harmony, which 
will signify the success of our party this year and next. It is only 
when Republicans are gathered together under such influence, 
touching elbow to elbow and looking into each other’s faces that 
they begin to realize that there are no differences among them. 
Therefore I say that while under some circumstances it might be 
embarrassing to have such a multiplicity of candidates, the com¬ 
pensation of it is that the friends of every candidate for different 
places come here as true and loyal Republicans by scores and by 
hundreds. 

The great, strong men who have made this party and who 
have contributed so much to the success of our state, they bring 
together and unite an influence that is simply irresistible. It is 
that strength within this party which gives the impetus to every 
move and every measure hurled from the rostrum of the Repub¬ 
lican convention. It is that power and influence which has aided 
our great president; looking back upon the army behind him, he 
moves forward with a fearless step, never doubting the outcome 
of whatever policy he may inaugurate. We are here to ratify the 
administration of our president, making it the keynote, the results 
of which ramify all over this country, evidenced by prosperity 
which follows in its wake. There is no need to heed the warning 
and slanderous attacks made upon the Republican party by the 
Democratic press of this state. We know our business. We have 
been in politics just as long as they have; our methods are differ¬ 
ent. Our plans are more direct, our motives higher and purer. 
We always trust our leaders to the end. 

No, gentlemen, I am for harmony. I want to tell you I have 
always been for harmony. What is more important, I am for 
success, whether we fight in divisions or in army corps. We will 
get there.” 

Governor A. S. Bushnell being called for, responded as fol¬ 
lows: 

“Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Convention— 
As I look over this grand audience I more fully realize the mag- 


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nificent citizenship in the grand commonwealth of Ohio, and I 
more fully realize the honor it is for any man to be the chief ex¬ 
ecutive of a state of such citizenship. I want to congratulate the 
gentleman whom you will nominate as my successor at this con¬ 
vention; a great honor is in store for him, and when you shall 
have selected him from the list of splendid Republicans whose 
names will be presented to you, and the other candidates upon 
the state ticket, Foraker, Grosvenor, Hanna and Bushnell will 
come forward and help you elect them. 

There is every evidence of harmony here. Senator Hanna 
has told you that is what he wants, and that is what I tell you I 
want, and I know that is what the Republicans of Ohio want. 
And we shall nominate a ticket here that I am satisfied the people 
of this great state will elect and thus endorse your action here at 
this convention. We .shall not only win a victory this fall, but 
we shall come forward next year and renominate and re-elect the 
splendid president from our own state. 

After this convention, and as the meetings shall be called 
throughout the state this fall, we will come and tell you what has 
been accomplished in the national and state administrations under 
Republican rule. 

Gentlemen, I am delighted to have had this opportunity to 
stand before you and look into your faces; this is a magnificent 
gathering, such a gathering as would inspire all with a promise 
of success.” 

General Charles Grosvenor being called for, the chair an¬ 
nounced that he had left the hall. 

Ex-Governor Charles Foster being called for, responded as 
follows: 

“Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Convention— 
I know that you want to proceed to business much more than lis¬ 
ten to a speech. I am here in the interest of harmony; not ex¬ 
actly harmony with the club, but I do congratulate this conven¬ 
tion and the Republicans of Ohio on the indications that appear 
that we shall have harmony and a glorious victory when election 
day comes.” 

The chair called for reports from the several congressional 
districts ; the reports were adopted as follows: 


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VICE PRESIDENTS. 


District. 

Name. 

Postoffice. 

I. 

Nicholas Longworth, 

Cincinnati 

2. 

Henry Bremfoerder, 

Cincinnati 

3- 

Samuel E. Morton, 

Eaton 

4 - 

William Binkley, 

Sidney 

5* 

D. W. Curtis, 

Antwerp 

6. 

E. P. West, 

New Vienna 

7- 

Asa S. Bushnell, 

Springfield 

8. 

Geo. H. Hitt, 

Urbana 

9- 

J. M. Longnecker, 

Delta 

10. 

O. C. Andre, 

Waverly 

11. 

Alexander Remick, 


12. 

Samuel Fenstemaker, 

Basil 

13 - 

H. K. Spooner, 

Republic 

14. 

H. D. Mooney, 

Mt. Gilead 


A. B. McIntyre, 

Me Connelsville 

16. 

J. C. Thomas, 

Augusta 

17- 

C. H. Ackey, 

New Philadelphia 

18. 

H. W. Harter, 

Canton 

19. 

Aaron Wagoner, 

Akron 

20. 

Wm. B. Uhl, 

Cleveland 

21. 

P. W. Ditto, 

Cleveland 


STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE. 


Vivian J. Fagin, Cincinnati 
P. W. Durr, Cincinnati 
C. A. Craighead, Dayton 
S. M. Fletcher, Lima 
W. H. McClintock, Defiance 
W. H. Walker, Hillsboro 
C. C. Chappelear, Circleville 
S. P. DeWolf, Findlay 
Perry W. Waite, Toledo 
Sherman H. Eagle, Gallipolis 
B. Malfi 


Frank A. Kelly, New Lexington 

Frank McCafferty, Columbus 

J. F. McNeal, Marion 

E. M. Peirce, Lorain 

T. J. Masterson, McConnelsville 

J. H. Beall, Scio 

George A. Hay, Coshocton 

Myron A. Norris, Youngstown 

O. P. Sperra, Ravenna 

R. S. Hubbard, Cleveland 

, Cleveland 





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RULES AND ORDER OF BUSINESS. 


Eugene L. Lewis, Cincinnati 
M. A. McGuire, Cincinnati 
O. V. Parrish, Hamilton 
W. F. Pixler, Celina 
J. R. Ross, Paulding 
Z. T. Heable, Xenia 
Stacey B. Rankin, S. Charleston 

D. E. Strayer, De Graff 
Wm. Kelly, Port Clinton 
Charles Barnes, Piketon 

C. W. Par 


Dr. J. M. Dennison, Hocking Co. 
F. L. Norris, Royalton 
R. S. Galleher, Sycamore 
J. D. Backhouse, Ashland 
B. F. Dutton, Chesterhill 
Jacob McVay, Stafford 
Frank Taggart, Wooster 
J. G. Moore, Lisbon 
George H. Ford, Burton 
W. G. Andrews, Cleveland 
cer, Cleveland 


PERMANENT ORGANIZATION. 


Louis Knickenmeyer, Cm’ti. 
W. M. Yeatman, Cincinnati 
R. E. Morrow, Eaton 
Henry Kuenzel, New Bremen 
A. E. Kissell, West Liberty 

E. Q. Crane, Batavia 
T. W. Merchant, Wash’ton C.H. 
J. J. Watts, Broadway 
W. S. Walker, Toledo 
Thos. Brown, Ironton 

R. L. Pain 


Elmer J. Biddison, Athens Co. 

F. R. Morath, Pickerington 
Jacob Babst, Crestline 
A. G. Bodley, Plymouth 
R. L. Holland, Zanesville 
T. B. Rouse, Woodsfield 
John Clintocke, Newark 
Mahlon Atkinson, Goshen 
Charles Lawyer, Jefferson 
Max P. Goodman, Cleveland 
2r, Cleveland 





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RESOLUTIONS. 


J. B. Swing, Cincinnati 
Scot Bonham, Cincinnati 
Isaac Hale, Middletown 
Robert O. Bingham, Sidney 
H. C. Glenn, Van Wert 

F. A. Edwards, Ripley 
McPherson Brown, Piqua 
W. A. Belt, Kenton 
H. S. Bassett, Wauseon 
Stephen Morgan, Oak Hill 
C. A. Ti 


Otto Vollenweider, Vinton Co. 

G. E. Selbaugh, Lancaster 
J. D. Finch, Fremont 

W. C. Cooper, Mt. Vernon 

H. C. VanVoorhis, Zanesville 
J. Dunbar, Steubenville 

M. E. Smyser, Wooster 
R. W. Tayler, Lisbon 
J. J. Sullivan, Warren 
M. T. Herrick, Cleveland 
in, Cleveland 


CREDENTIALS. 


Aug. Hermann, Cincinnati 
Jos. F. Kushman, Cincinnati 
J. E. Lowes, Dayton 
Frank T. Conkling, Greenville 
F. D. Prentiss, Napoleon 
Chas. H. Eulass, Lebanon 
R. H. McCloud, London 
Otis Kimball, Sunbury 
J. C. Bonner, Toledo 
Phil. S. Clark, Portsmouth 

J. H. Bradr 


Austin W. Vorhes, Meigs Co. 
A. I. Vorys, Lancaster 
W. C. Brown, Fostoria 
G. M. Skiles, Shelby 
A. D. Alderman, Marietta 
P. B. Worthington, Barnesville 
M. V. Moody, Uhrichsville 
G. E. Baldwin, Canton 
Geo. W. Sieber, Akron 
F. J. Wing, Cleveland 
sr, Cleveland 





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On motion, all papers relating to the platform were referred 
to the Committee on Resolutions, without reading or debate. 
On motion, the convention adjourned until io o’clock Friday 
morning. 

Thursday, June 2d, 1899, 10 o’clock a. m. 

The convention met pursuant to adjournment. 

Prayer by the Rev. H. H. Barbour, pastor of the First 
Baptist Church, Columbus. 

The journal of yesterday was read and approved. 

On leave, the Hon. Eugene Eewis, of the committee on 
Rules and Order of Business, submitted the following report, and: 
recommended its adoption. 

The order of business shall be as follows : 

The chairman shall call the convention to order and call for 
the reports of the committees appointed by this convention as 
follows, to wit: 

Rules and order of business. 

Permanent organization. 

Credentials. 

Resolutions. 

And the chairmen of those committees respectively shall 
present said reports. 

Nominations shall be made as follows and in the following 
order : 

Governor. 

Lieutenant-Governor. 

Auditor of State. 

Treasurer of State. 

Attorney-General. 

Judge of the Supreme Court. 

Member of Board of Public Works. 

The secretary shall call the roll of counties in alphabetical! 
order for the presentation of the names of candidates for the 
various offices to be filled, and any county having a candidate to 
present shall be allowed not more than five minutes for the 
presentation of the name of its candidate and but one minute 
shall be allowed for a seconding speech. But one seconding 
speech for any candidate shall be permitted. 


REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION OF OHIO. 


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After the nominations for any office have been closed and the 
roll call ordered the chairman of each delegation shall arise at 
the call of his county and announce the vote entitled to be cast 
by his county and it shall be recorded as cast unless challenged 
by some delegate of the county. 

Thereupon the roll of the county shall be called and the vote 
recorded. 

Each delegation shall determine in what manner, whether by 
yea and nay vote, or by ballot, it shall give its vote to its chairman. 

After the vote of a county has been announced and recorded, 
no change in its vote shall be made until the roll call of counties 
is completed, and then only before the result of such ballot is 
announced. 

This convention shall be governed by the rules of the Ohio 
House of Representatives and Roberts’ Rules of Order, as far as 
not in conflict with this report. 

On motion the report was adopted unanimously. 

On leave the Hon. R. E. Holland of the Committee on Per¬ 
manent Organization submitted the following report, and recom¬ 
mended its adoption: 

“Your Committee on Permanent Organization recommend 
that the Temporary Organization be made permanent.” 

On motion the report was adopted unanimously. 

On leave the Hon. S. M. Skiles, of the Committee on Cre¬ 
dentials, submitted the following report and recommended its 
adoption: 

“Your Committee on Credentials beg leave to submit the fol¬ 
lowing report: 

All the counties are [represented. Seventy-three counties se¬ 
lected delegates and alternates. Fifteen counties selected only 
delegates. Contesting delegations from the counties of Adams, 
Allen, Cuyahoga, Hamilton, Highland, Preble and Ricking ap¬ 
peared before the committee. Your committee having duly con¬ 
sidered and disposed of said contests, beg leave to report that the 
following delegates and alternates are entitled to seats in this 
convention.” 

[For list of delegates and alternates see Appendix B.] 

On motion the report was adopted unanimously. 


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On leave the Hon. John J. Sullivan, of the Committee on 
Resolutions, submitted the following report and recommended 
its adoption: 

“The Republican party of Ohio reaffirms the principles de¬ 
clared by the St. Louis platform. 

We earnestly endorse the great administration of William 
McKinley. It is distinguished to a remarkable degree in the his¬ 
tory of national administrations. 

Under the last Democratic administration, and as a result of 
Democratic principles and policies, our industries were destroyed; 
capital and labor were unemployed; the poor suffered as never be¬ 
fore in our history; agricultural products could not be sold, be¬ 
cause consumers could not earn money with which to buy; and 
every branch of trade felt the blighting influence of the Demo¬ 
cratic ‘tariff reform’ hard times. The treasury of the United 
States was depleted, and the gold reserve disappeared; the gov¬ 
ernment borrowed money to pay current expenses, increasing the 
public debt, in time of peace, by hundreds of millions of dollars. 
The Democratic party proposed to the people as a remedy for all 
these Democratic ills, a depreciated and dishonest currency, 
which intensified every evil. 

During all that period of depression and distress, the Repub¬ 
lican party stood firm for the principles and policies under 
which American industries had been built up and had flourished 
beyond example—the principles and policies under which the peo¬ 
ple had prospered for more than a generation, and the nation had 
grown great; stood firm for a sound and an honest currency; and, 
in 1896, elected to the presidency, William McKinley, the best 
exponent of Republicanism and true American ideas and policies, 
the friend of every American industry, the wise and patriotic de¬ 
fender, and the able advocate of honest money. 

Under his splendid administration public credit has been re¬ 
stored; the prosperity of the people has developed; our commerce 
has grown great; our trade, domestic and foreign, has increased 
to a degree never before known; and the people are looking with 
confidence for greater things to come. 

The magnificent achievements of our army and navy in the 
war with Spain, for the liberation of the down-trodden and op- 


REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION OF OHIO. 


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pressed people of Cuba from the domination of Spanish despo¬ 
tism, accomplished under the master guidance of a Republican 
administration, are subjects for highest encomium by a conven¬ 
tion of Ohio Republicans. 

To the same master guidance, controlled by the great prin¬ 
ciples that have shaped the high destiny of the Republican party 
from Lincoln to McKinley, the people can safely commit the 
solution of the momentous problem of the future of Cuba, Porto 
Rico, and the Philippines. Its wise solution will vastly increase 
our foreign trade, spread American civilization abroad, and add 
to the honor and power and glory of this great nation. 

We commend the president for the judicious modifications 
of the civil service rules recently promulgated. 

For the national defense, for the strengthening of our navy, 
for the enlargement of our foreign markets, for the employment 
of American workingmen on the farms, in the mines, forests, 
mills, factories, and shipyards, we demand the immediate enact¬ 
ment of legislation similar to that favorably reported to each 
branch of the Fifty-fifth Congress at its last session, so that 
American-built, American-owned, and American-manned ships 
may regain the carrying of our foreign commerce. 

We are proud of the brilliant and conspicuous services to the 
people of the state and the nation rendered by the senators from 
Ohio, Hon. Joseph R. Foraker and Hon. Marcus A. Hanna, and 
of the matchless record of the delegation of Republican congress¬ 
men now representing the Buckeye state. 

The present administration of state affairs, under Governor 
Asa S. Bushnell, has been able, wise, and economical. It is free 
from scandal, and eminently satisfactory to the people of the 
state without regard to party. No state administration has 
enjoyed to a greater degree the confidence of all the people. 

We commend the action of the Seventy-third General 
Assembly in passing the stringent law now on our statute books, 
prohibiting the organization of ‘ trusts,’ and we denounce such 
unlawful combinations as inimical to the interests of the people. 

We congratulate the people of the state upon the fact that a 
Republican legislature enacted this law, and we demand its rigid 
enforcement. 


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We pledge our party to such further legislation as experi¬ 
ence may determine necessary to prevent the formation and 
operation of such iniquitous and dangerous combinations. 

We demand such readjustment of our tax laws as will im¬ 
pose the burdens of taxation more equally and uniformly upon 
the various kinds of property. 

The growing evil of lynching, attended by unspeakable 
horrors, is a blot upon our civilization and a menace to our 
Republican form of government. 

The Ohio Centennial and Northwest Territory Exposition, 
which is to be held at the city of Toledo in the year 1902, is an 
event in which all the states that constituted the Northwest Terri¬ 
tory should feel a deep interest. This is especially true of the 
State of Ohio, which was the first state to be carved from that 
great domain. The exposition will be held on the one-hundredth 
anniversary of the admission of the State of Ohio into the Union, 
and will be the first opportunity which the state has had to 
adequately show to the world the great progress which it has 
made in all its diversified industries and interests during the first 
century of its existence. In order that the exposition may be a 
credit to this state we call upon the legislature at its next 
session to make an appropriation commensurate with the great 
interest involved. 

We recommend that the Republican State Central Commit¬ 
tee adopt a rule, as nearly uniform as practicable, for the selection 
of delegates to the state conventions of the Republican party. ’ ’ 

On motion the report was adopted unanimously. 

The next business in order being the nomination for Gover¬ 
nor, the roll of counties was then called, and the Hon. J. W, 
Holcomb nominated for said office the Hon. Harry M. Daugh¬ 
erty, of Fayette county, in the following speech: 

“Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen oe the Convention— 
The political party that received its early success from tutors like 
Lincoln and Grant, Blaine and Sherman, could not do otherwise 
than produce a McKinley, under whose guidance this nation has 
emerged from a Democratic desert of despair into a Republican 
sunlight of prosperity. From the busy shores of the Atlantic to 


REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION OF OHIO. 31 

the Golden Gat$ of the Pacific; from the treasured wealth of the 
North to the rich plantations of the South, a God-fearing and 
prosperous people are gathered in 45 states; a perfect necklace of 
gems, and hanging from it as a pendant is the Buckeye state. 
The history of the Republican party is recorded upon the bright¬ 
est pages of the history of this great people, and no act can, no 
act shall, be done today that does not unmistakably proclaim for 
patriotism, Republicanism and McKinleyism. 

The Republican party of Ohio, as of the nation, is a child of 
the people, and it is greater than any man or any set of men with¬ 
in it. It is greater than any faction, or greater than all factions 
within it. The first great battle of the general engagement of 1900 
will be fought next November, and the ways of that people will 
be determined in this convention today. No mistake must be 
made, no misstep taken, no dictation tolerated, and no voice heard 
save the voice of the people speaking through the party of William 
McKinley. The standard-bearer must be a representative Repub¬ 
lican, whose record and individuality stamp him as an exponent 
of the living issues of his party. The fame, the figure and the 
victor of the South should meet the counselor of the North in 
our candidate. To Mahoning, to Brie, to Franklin, to Ross, to 
Muskingum, to Montgomery and the others, to your favorite 
sons, we remove our hats, but at this particular time, in looking 
about for a candidate that can most easily recognize our strength, 
Cuyahoga turns \o Fayette, and we ask that her favorite son be 
made our candidate. We knew him in the legislative halls in 
1894; we knew him in counsel in 1897; we knew him in command 
in 1898, when he gave us a victory of 61,000. We have loved 
him each year more. Democracy first knew him when he became 
of age, 20 years ago, and Democracy has learned to fear him each 
year more and more; the more Democracy fears him, the more do 
we love him. He is young and strong; he is courageous, and if 
you nominate him his voice will be heard in every county in Ohio. 
He is bright and pure, and each day as the campaign progresses, 
brighter and brighter and brighter will shine the public and per¬ 
sonal character of the Hon. Harry Daugherty.” 


32 


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On the call of Erie county, the Hon. E. B. King nominated 
for said office the Hon. Kinn W. Hull, of Erie county, in the 
following speech: 

“Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Convention 
This great body of Republican delegates is indeed an inspiration 
to Republicanism in our state. It is prophetic of the victory 
that we will win this year, and of the still greater and more im¬ 
portant one that we win next year. Conditions created by our 
party and by its administration of public affairs are favorable to 
success. But to add to these conditions there requires but one 
other element, and that is leadership and organization. 

A man to lead our ticket, to organize and help to win with 
the Republicans a great victory in this state this year, we owe as 
a state, the party owes it to the nation and to the Republican 
party of the Union that we shall by our wise judgment in the 
selection of candidates this year put Ohio in the fore front of the 
great column of Republican states that shall march to triumphant 
victory under the leadership of William McKinley in 1900. And 
Ohio has never been found lacking when men were needed on 
important occasions. We have always found them in great 
numbers, and I understand that there are several here today 
ready, willing and fit to take upon themselves this leadership and 
to assist in winning this great victory. All these men are honor¬ 
able, and among their number I rise to lay before the considera¬ 
tion of this convention one whom I deem to be the equal of any 
that shall be nominated, for your consideration. I present for 
the consideration of the convention for the nomination for this 
high office the name of Judge Kinn W. Hull, of Erie county. In 
doing this, let me say for him that he is a young man, in the 
prime of life, in the full splendor of his physical and mental 
powers ; a man equipped by education and experience to honor 
the place and ably occupy this office that has been filled by so 
many of Ohio’s great sons. Reared upon a farm among the 
people of Erie county, educated in the schools and colleges, 
spending nearly 20 years of his life at the bar, he rose and was after¬ 
ward chosen to the common pleas bench, which he has occupied 
with dignity, with honor and fairness all the time. No man that 


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33 


can be selected will more fully and more justly fill the office than 
Judge Hull. Ever since our distinguished and honored president 
came before the people he has been among the foremost of his 
enthusiastic supporters all along the line, and, as he has been in 
years past, he is now, a man loyal to his party always, loyal to 
all other candidates, from the highest and greatest to the lowest 
and the humblest.” 

On the call of Franklin county, the Hon. Henry C. Taylor 
nominated for said office the Hon. Geo. K. Nash, of Franklin 
county, in the following speech : 

“The Republican party in Ohio, since the days of Salmon P, 
Chase, has been equal to the duty of giving a good administra¬ 
tion to the state. In war and in peace, from the beginning until 
now, its history has been one of brilliant achievements. Every 
Republican governor of Ohio has met the high and just expecta¬ 
tions of the people, and has passed to other fields of labor and 
honor, or returned to private life with a crown of success. The 
problems of the present and the future are not, and will not, be 
more difficult of solution than have been those of the past. 
These questions will be met and solved by the party of which we 
are members, as weighty issues have heretofore been met and 
solved for the best interests of all concerned, and in a manner 
satisfactory to the mass of the people. 

The wisdom,- the patriotism, the high sense of honor to 
every obligation, the fidelity to duty, of the Republican party, 
renders it equal to every emergency. We propose that the lustre 
of our past shall not in the smallest degree be diminished or 
dimmed by our future history. The party that was formed in 
the interest of humanity, and to uphold and advance the rights of 
man, will continue to protect and promote the rights of man. 

Forty years ago at a convention of the Republican party, 
upon the calling of the roll, Franklin county placed in nomina¬ 
tion Hon. William Dennison, who was duly elected and became 
the first war governor of our state. Since that time the county 
in which the capitol is located has battled bravely and well for 
the Republican cause. We have for 20 years given handsome 
majorities to the candidates on the state ticket; we have by our 
representatives contributed to the election of United States sena- 


34 


JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE 


tors, and, in the last presidential election, we gave a majority of 
more than 3,000 to our present chief executive. 

We propose to continue this work in this way, and in No¬ 
vember we shall send four representatives to the general assembly 
who will vote to maintain our supremacy in that legislative body 
in the country. By your action today, you may make this easy 
for us, but this we intend to do, whoever may be the nominee of 
this convention. After two score years, Franklin county again 
conies before a state convention and asks that one of her citizens 
be recognized for the high office of governor. 

Directly after the close of the civil war, in 1865, a modest 
and unassuming young man, born and reared on a farm in 
Medina county, took up his residence in Columbus, and com¬ 
menced the struggle of life. He had been a soldier and school 
teacher, and now, without money or friends, he undertook the 
task of making his own way in the world, with the ambition to 
secure an honorable name among his fellowmen. He became a 
clerk, journalist, lawyer, prosecuting attorney, attorney general, 
and a member of the supreme court of Ohio. Faithful to every 
trust, when honored by the people, he has, by his service, in turn 
honored them. 

As chairman of the state executive committee, he has, in 
four campaigns, led the Republican party to victory. He has 
been not only the political supporter, but also the personal friend, 
of the three presidents from Ohio, Hayes, Garfield and McKin¬ 
ley; and now, after thirty years of continuous, efficient and faith¬ 
ful labor in the front rank of Republican workers, on behalf of 
the Republicans of Franklin county, and in the name of tens of 
thousands of earnest Republicans all over Ohio, I present to this 
convention, for the office of governor, a name known in every 
county, township and ward of the state, the name of the soldier, 
journalist, lawyer, judge and statesman, George K. Nash.” 

On the call of Mahoning county, the Hon. D. W. King nom¬ 
inated for said office the Hon. Asa W. Jones, of Mahoning coun¬ 
ty, in the following speech: 

“Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Convention— 
In the good old days when I was a boy, and when there was but 


REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION OF OHIO. 


35 


one kind of Republican, the man whom I am about to present for 
your consideration was a leader in the Republican party of the 
Western Reserve. We are told here that certain candidates and 
sections have stood loyally by the Republican party. We, there¬ 
fore, pay tribute to the Republicanism and loyalty of the favored 
section of Ohio, but we think we may without egotism say that 
the Western Reserve has contributed its full share for, lo, these 
30 years, to the success of Republicanism. We are told that the 
Republican party will follow its leaders. Indeed such analysis I 
am afraid is a mistake. On the contrary, the leaders of the Re¬ 
publican party must keep in line with the thought and judgment 
and expression and patriotism of the rank and file of the Repub¬ 
lican party of this state. I come here to present to this conven¬ 
tion a man of mature judgment and ripe experience; a man born 
and reared on a farm; a man who has become not simply an at- 
torney-at-law, but a lawyer, who practised in all of the courts, 
state and federal, with success and with distinction. I come here 
to present a man who for more than 30 years in every campaign 
has appeared upon the hustings in forceful and effective advocacy 
of Republican principles; who is a large man physically and a 
broad man mentally; who is capable and able to think for him¬ 
self at all times and under all circumstances; who makes no claim 
before this convention, except that he believes in and is devoted 
to the principles that make Republicanism; who is able not only 
to defend the principles and policies and purposes of the party 
that have appeared in past campaigns, but who has the giant 
strength to meet the new issues that now confront that party. I 
present to you for your calm, conscientious consideration a man 
who, without prejudice to any candidate, is nearer, in my judg¬ 
ment, the great masses of the Republicans of the state than any 
other candidate of this convention. I present to you for your con¬ 
sideration a man who has served you faithfully, ably and well in 
the second highest office within your gift for the last four years, 
Hon. Asa W. Jones, of Mahoning county.” 

On the call of Montgomery county, the Hon. C. H. Bosler 
nominated for said office the Hon. R. M. Nevin, of Montgomery 
county, in the following speech: 


36 


JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE 


“Mr. Chairman and Republicans of Ohio —We are here 
today because we love the Republican party. We are here today 
proud of its immortal past, rejoicing in its splendid present, and 
sure of its magnificent future. 

We are here today, glad we are Republicans, and determined, 
each and everyone of us, so to act that when this convention is 
over and our work is done, we can feel that we have accomplished 
something that will strengthen its life and add to its perpetuity. 
The Republican party is greater than any man, and our love for 
it greater and more abiding than our friendship for any individ¬ 
ual. Our first and greatest duty is to the party, to perpetuate 
its principles, to maintain its platforms, to spread abroad its ideas, 
and to uphold the man we have chosen from its ranks to be the 
President of the United States. The men we nominate today 
must be Republicans, and, above all, the man who shall head our 
ticket, the standard-bearer of this campaign, must be a Republi¬ 
can around whose name, as around a banner of victory, we all can 
rally. I say—around whose name we all can rally. He must be 
a man of big brain, fit to represent the biggest party on earth. 
He should be a man of large experience and mature judgment, 
capable of taking up the great questions of the hour and present¬ 
ing them to the people; and, above all, he should be a tried and 
true Republican, faithful to those who have in charge the admin¬ 
istration of affairs in State and Nation. Such a man I present to 
you today, Republicans of Ohio, in the person of big-bodied, big¬ 
brained, big-hearted ‘Bob’ Nevin, of Dayton. 

I need not tell this convention who he is. There hasn’t been 
a Republican convention in Ohio in twenty years that hasn’t 
known him; nor has there been one in twenty years that hasn’t 
. delighted to hear him talk Republicanism. He used to come 
from that Vallandingham Gibraltar of Democracy, Montgomery 
county, always good for it 2,000 Democratic majority; but recent¬ 
ly he has come from that ‘Bob’ Nevin stronghold of Republi¬ 
canism, Montgomery county. It has been said that where but 
few are found together against the many, fighting for the right, 
all are heroes, and so it was for many years with us. In a Dem¬ 
ocratic city, in a Democratic county, in a Democratic judicial and 
congressional district, there was no hope of reward; but day after 



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37 


day, month after month and year after year, in every precinct of 
the county, the clarion voice of ‘Bob’ Nevin rang out for Re¬ 
publicanism and its principles. No matter who else failed, he 
never faltered; no matter who else hesitated, he never did. The 
weather was never too stormy, the night was never too dark, the 
drive was never too long, for ‘Bob’ Nevin to go forth to teach 
the doctrines of Republicanism; and today, a monument to his 
efforts more than to those of any one man, Montgomery county 
gives her 2,000 majority to the Republican ticket. He has never 
been an office-seeker; his labor has been one of love and duty to 
the party. His nominations have been forced upon him when 
there was no hope for any other Republican. In 1887, at the 
unanimous solicitation of his party, when no man, not even the 
oldest inhabitant of the county, had ever heard of a Republican 
official in old Montgomery, he defeated the pet of Democracy for 
prosecuting attorney by 800, and again in 1894 the unanimous 
choice of the Third district, which two years before had given 
George Houk a Democratic majority of 4,200, he came within 
101 votes of election. 

Do you wonder then, Republicans of Ohio, that Montgomery 
county today again unanimously, I say unanimously, presents to 
this convention for governor the name of Robert M. Nevin ? A 
trained lawyer, a close reasoner, a peerless orator, a fearless pa¬ 
triot, a tried and true Republican—nominate him and your battle 
is already won. Nominate him and there will be no factionalism 
in Ohio. Nominate him and his voice; carrying conviction in 
language that is classic, in manner superb, will be heard in every 
county in the state. Nominate him and on election day in No¬ 
vember, the Democracy of Ohio, like the Spanish when they 
heard old Dewey’s guns at Manila on May 1, will awaken to find 
themselves already beaten, and for the Republican party the bat¬ 
tle already gained.” 

On the call of Muskingum county, the Hon. M. M. Granger 
nominated for said office the Hon. Frank A. Durban, of Mus¬ 
kingum county, in the following speech: 

‘‘Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Convention:— 
I happen to know the man whose name you will be glad to place 


38 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE 

on your ticket as the Republican candidate for governor of Ohio. 

He is in the prime of life. By the time the votes to be cast 
in our state next November shall have been counted and reported 
he will have completed forty years full of evidence as to birth, 
education, and achievement which we desire to submit in proof of 
the claim of the Muskingum valley and southeastern Ohio that he 
is well equipped to successfully discharge the great trust repre¬ 
sented by that most honorable office. He has lived these forty 
years in the city of Zanesville, a life of industry, energy and 
activity, so that he is well known to people of all parties, all 
ages and occupations, who have had ample opportunity to learn 
and know his real nature, character and capabilities. Beginning 
with the contests and rivalries of the school-room and proceeding 
to combats at the bar, and to the wider activities of the political 
arena, these years made it his duty to oppose large numbers of 
men ; his ability, information and persistence, have given victory 
to many of his clients and of his candidates, and impressed upon 
their opponents the sadness of defeat—but if you ask from the 
people in whose midst all this was done, their testimony, Demo¬ 
crat and Republican, successful and unsuccessful, rich and poor,old 
and young, will tell you that he is honest, he is capable, he has been 
and will be faithful to every duty ; that as lawyer, as citizen, as a 
man, he is among the foremost in our state. In the cloud of wit¬ 
nesses who can thus testify you will find every judge who has sat 
in probate courts, common pleas and circuit courts in southeastern 
Ohio for years ; every judge who in the United States courts at 
Cincinnati or Columbus, or on the bench of the Supreme court of 
Ohio during the same years, has heard the leaders of the bar of 
our state. So, also, will numbers of our experienced men of 
affairs, whose conduct in difficult crises has been guided by his 
counsel ; so, also, will other numbers of active Republicans who 
can tell how his eloquent tongue has enforced upon listening 
thousands the great doctrines of the Republican party in its 
recent campaigns. 

While these witnesses can tell you these facts about our can¬ 
didate, no one can tell you that he has ever failed to stand firmly 
upon the Republican platform, or to faithfully and zealously 
support the Republican candidates ; or that he has ever sought 


REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION OF OHIO. 


39 


the success of any clique or ring. He is a personal friend of 
President McKinley. We believe that if he shall be nominated 
he will receive the united support of our great party. 

According to Scripture he may fairly expect to live thirty 
years longer. This will give him time to justify your suffrages 
in his favor by using in the service of the people the great talents 
that God gave him, made all the more effective by the education 
and experience to which I have alluded. 

Southeastern Ohio may well ask leave to name the successful 
candidate now and here. Our party contests began after the Ohio 
election of October, 1853. At that election William Medill, a 
Democrat, residing at Lancaster, Fairfield county, within half a 
dozen miles of the extreme western line of southeastern Ohio was 
elected governor and served until Salmon P. Chase succeeded him 
in January, 1856. Since 1853 no governor or lieutenant-governor 
of our state, of either party, was resident in southeastern Ohio- 
Of course the residence of the candidate is not of primary impor¬ 
tance ; but ‘ other things being equal,’ when candidates are sub¬ 
stantially equal in character and capacity and service, it is proper 
to permit the question of locality to sway the vote. Southeastern 
Ohio is full of taxpayers and wage earners who cast a very large 
number of Republican votes. Our state apportionment for state 
senators and representatives is such that the control of our legis¬ 
lature generally depends upon certain close districts or counties- 
A number of these lie in southeastern Ohio and our candidate 
can and will greatly help our legislative candidates to carry them. 

Place the name of Frank A. Durban at the head of your 
banner ; send him with his fine presence, his courteous bearing, 
his eloquent tongue and his impregnable logic far and wide 
throughout the state and you will bring a united party to the 
polls next November. 

Gentlemen : I have the honor to name to you as a most 
worthy candidate for governor of Ohio, Frank A. Durban, of 
Muskingum county.” 

On the call of Ross county, the Hon. Samuel H. Hurst nom¬ 
inated for said office the Hon. Albert Douglas, of Ross county, 
in the following speech: 


40 


JOURNAL, OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE 


“Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Convention:—I 
have been delighted in listening to these generous words and 
elegant encomiums spoken of the distinguished gentlemen who 
have been presented to this convention. I have been delighted 
to hear them because they are just. These are grand men and 
worthy leaders of the great Republican party of Ohio, and we all 
honor and love them, and gladly will we follow them that today 
may be nominated by this convention. But, Mr. Chairman, it 
will be the duty of this convention not only to nominate a ticket, 
but to meet a condition that demands the careful consideration of 
this great body of representative men. In that delightful bit of 
oratory and love feast yesterday afternoon, no wiser word was 
said than that spoken by our senior senator, that this year would 
be the easiest year to win a Republican victory and the easiest 
year to lose one. So that it behooves us to be wise as well as to 
stand by our friend and act by the whole Republican party and 
Republican citizenship of Ohio rather than of our personal friends, 
however worthy they may be. It was also said by your 
chairman of the state central committee in that meeting yesterday 
afternoon that the only obstacle in our path, that the only thing 
that menaced our success, was this unfriendly strife of faction, 
and that the only remedy for that was to bury the hatchet out of 
sight utterly. But I know from my own experience and obser¬ 
vation that all over the state of Ohio the great army of Republi¬ 
cans are looking to you today for this relief. They have been 
humiliated by this miserable business of factions and they long to 
see you rise above this and place before the people of Ohio a man 
who has not been identified with these factions, a man who can 
begin the new century of our state and Christian era with a clean 
record for the Republican party of Ohio. The sentiment has 
been murmuring to us throughout the state, and down in south 
central Ohio we have had to listen to it. We have selected a 
man to present to this convention who meets the situation entirely. 
In the name of that citizenship, I rise to present to you for nomi¬ 
nation to this high office the Hon. Albert Douglas, of Ross 
county. ’ ’ 

There being no other nominations, the convention proceeded 
to vote by ballot; the roll of the counties was called, with the 
following result: 


THE FIRST BALLOT 


4* 


Counties. 

Daugherty. 

Hull. 

Nash. 

Jones. 

. Nevin. 

Durban. 

Douglas. 

u 

Ih 

o 

Counties. 

Daugherty. 

Hull. 

Nash. 

Jones. 

Nevin. 

Durban. 

Douglas. 

Orr. 

Adams. 

3 

i 

3 

3 


3 

3 

i 

4 






Loean . 

3 

8 

5 

6 

... 

2 

4 

15 

1 

1 

... 

... 


Allen. 

i 

i 




Lorain. 

Lucas. 

Ashland . 




2 

... 

... 

2 


Ashtabula.... 
Athens. 

3 

i 




Madison. 


8 

... 

Mahoning ... 



12 

1 





Auglaize. 

2 

6 

3 



2 

... 

... 

Marion. 

i 

i 

i 

6 


1 



Belmont. 

... 

6 

Medina. 

Brown. 


i 

8 


i 

... 

Meigs. 






8 


Butler. 




Mercer. 

3 






Carroll. 




4 




Miami. 







10 

Champaign.. 
Clark . 

3 

8 

2 

1 

2 

5 

i 

4 i 

1 

2 

2 

i 

4 

2 

5 

1 

2 





Monroe. 

2 

... 

i 









I 

Montgomery 
Morgan. 


28 




Clermont. 









5 

... 


Clinton.. 

i 

8 

i 

i 

I 

i 

i 

... 

Morrow. 



5 



Columbiana 
Coshocton... 
Crawford .... 
Cuyahoga.... 
p>arke 

Muskingum. 
Noble . 





13 

5 








... 

... 

i 

*8 

3 

12 

2 

2 

2 






Ottawa . 


3 




2 

2 

2 

i 

i 

I 

Paulding . 

3 

3 






Perry . 




7 


Tlefianee 

Pickaway .... 
Pike . 

5 






T)e1a ware 

I 

I 

i 








4 


Erie... 

Portage . 

Preble . 

i 

... 

3 

2 



pairfieJd 


6 






6 

1 




Fayette 

5 







Putnam . 

i 

8 


i 

... 

... 

... 

1 

Fra n klin 


34 

1 

3 

2 

2 






Richland . 

ROSS . 

Ful ton 

i 

i 

i 

I 

1 

2 

I 









10 


Ciflllia 


i 

... 

Sandusky .... 
Scioto . 

.... 

6 





Opaiioffl 





8 

... 

flrppti p 

4 


2 




Seneca . 

Shelby . 

.... 

... 

8 




Oiif»rn<!Pv 


7 

... 


1 

1 

1 

1 

3 

T-T a mil tnn 


6 

i 

50 

4 

1 

2 

3 

IO 

20 


Stark . 

6 

3 

... 

IO 

6 

4 

3 

10 


6 

4 

3 




Summit . 

TT q rd i ti 

I 

... 

i 


... 

Trumbull 

ild .1 Cl 111 .. • 

Harrison . 

TT p ti 

Tuscarawas. . 
Union . 

8 

i 

i 











I 

... 

5 

6 






Highland . 

TT ndri ti cr 

4 





3 

2 

Van Wert . 







2 

1 

2 

I 

9 

6 




Vinton . 




4 


TT nl 111 pq 

1 

2 

4 

2 




Warren . 

3 

5 

3 

6 

4 

... 

3 

2 

3 

1 

1 



Huron . 

... 

... 

2 

2 

... 

Washington. 
Wayne . 

... 

3 

... 

... 


J dC-rCcjCJll. 

T p>-f-Fp*TQntl 




Williams . 

Wood... . 





XT’ ti av 

i 

... 







7 

4 

289 






T qVp 

5 





Wyandot . 






Lawrence .... 
Licking . 

2 

... 

4 

9 

... 

... 

I 


Totals . 

211 

39 

76 

82 

46 

,6. 

17 


No one having received a majority of the votes, the chair 
declared there had been no choice, and ordered the second ballot. 




























































































































































































42 


THE SECOND BALLOT 


Counties. 


Adams. 

Allen. 

Ashland. 

Ashtabula..., 

Athens. 

Auglaize. 

Belmont. 

Brown. 

Butler. 

Carroll. 

Champaign.. 

Clark. 

Clermont... 

Clinton. 

Columbiana 

Coshocton... 

Crawford_ 

Cuyahoga.... 

Darke. 

Defiance. 

Delaware. 

Erie. 

Fairfield.. 

Fayette. 

Franklin. 

Fulton. 

Gallia. 

Geauga. 

Greene. 

Guernsey. 

Hamilton.... 

Hancock. 

Hardin. 

Harrison.. 

Henry. 

Highland. 

Hocking. 

Holmes. 

Huron. 

Jackson. 

Jefferson. 

Knox. 

Fake. 

Lawrence. 

Licking. 


to 

<u 

a 

o 

•—» 

Nevin. 

Durban. 

to* 

rt 

’So 

S 3 

O 

Q 

Counties. 

<v 

’So 

3 

CtJ 

Q 

rd 

to 

rt 

fc 

to 

<v 

0 

Nevin. 

Durban. 

Douglas. 




5 

Logan.. 

2 

7 

8 
6 

3 

5 

H 

2 




i 

I 


Lorain. 







Lucas. 




2 


I 



Madison. 






8 

Mahoning.... 


12 







Marion. 

2 

3 

6 








Medina. 






i 


i 

Meigs. 





8 



Mercer. 

3 









Miami. 

IO 

i 









Monroe. 

2 





I 




Montgomery 
Morgan. 


28 

5 

.... 












Morrow. 


5 




2 

2 



Muskingum. 
Noble. 




13 

5 








.... 





Ottawa. 

3 

2 

I 

5 




. 

2 


2 

Paulding. 

4 






Perry. 




6 





Pickaway. 





I 

I 

i 


Pike. 

4 

5 






Portage. 

i 









Preble. 


6 

1 







Putnam. 

2 

8 

i 

. 







Richland. 







Ross. 





10 

I 



I 

Sandusky. 


6 

8 

8 






Scioto. 










Seneca. 








6 


Shelby. 


I 

3 

3 






Stark. 

5 

i 

i 

4 

12 

14 

5 
4 

6 
6 







Summit. 








Trumbull. 

4 








Tuscarawas.. 
Union..,. 
















Van Wert.... 
Vinton. 

i 








2 



. 1 

4 




Warren. 

3 
5 

4 

4 

4 

3 
6 

ii 

4 








Washington. 
Wayne. 



1 













Williams. 

Wood. 














I 



Wyandot. 









Totals. 


27 



49 





205 

461 

47 

3 1 


The Hon. George K. Nash having received a majority of all 
the votes cast, was declared the nominee for Governor of the 
State. 

















































































































































































































REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION OF OHIO. 43. 

On motion of the Hon. J. W. Holcomb, the nomination of 
the Hon. Geo. K. Nash was made unanimous. 

The Hon. Harry M. Daugherty was recognized by the 
chair, and addressed the convention as follows : 

“Mr. Chairman, Gentlemen of the Convention, My 
Fellow-Republicans —I have been informed by what I believe 
is the best authority that the Republican party of Ohio has nomi¬ 
nated a gentleman who will be the next governor of the state of 
Ohio, and, while this is a good deal like a man dancing a jig at 
his own funeral, nevertheless there is a great deal of pleasure in 
doing it. I thought it might be becoming in me, inasmuch as I 
feel a disposition to do so, to come before this convention and say 
to you, my fellow-citizens, Republicans of Ohio, that I cheerfully 
ratify the choice of this convention. I have no impulse that will 
not be honorable, nor a muscle that will not be strained to carry 
out the will of this convention. To my friends, who paid me 
the compliment to cast their votes for me for this high office, I 
have nothing to offer but my sincere thanks. To those who 
have supported the victor in this contest, I bear no malice. The 
will of the Republican party of Ohio is the will of the people; 
the prosperity, the success of the party, is the hope of the people. 
Much depends upon the election of this ticket, for this campaign 
will be but a call for volunteers for the great army of 1900, which 
will elect the present president of the United States as his own 
successor. 

I will remain a private citizen—not, perhaps, because of my 
own choice, but because that is a privilege that no man dare deny 
me. I am determined to have my own way about something. I 
have no desire to interfere with the deliberations of this conven¬ 
tion. I thank you, gentlemen of the convention, and ratify the 
nomination made by you.” 

On motion the chair appointed Senators J. B. Foraker, M. 
A. Hanna and Ex-Governor Charles Foster, a committee to 
notify the Hon. George K. Nash of his nomination for governor, 
and to invite him to address the convention. 

The next business in order being the nominations for lieu¬ 
tenant-governor, the chair directed the call of the counties, and 


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on the call of Hamilton county, the Hon. J. B. Swing nomi¬ 
nated for said office the Hon. John A. Caldwell of Hamilton 
county. On the call of Lawrence county, the Hon. A. R. John¬ 
son nominated for said office the Hon. E. S. Wilson of Law¬ 
rence county. The Hon. J. W. Carpenter of Meigs seconded the 
nomination of the Hon. E. S. Wilson. On the call of Summit 
county, the Hon. J. A. Kohler nominated for said office the 
Hon. J. Park Alexander, of Summit county. 

There being no other nominations, the convention proceeded 
to vote by ballot. The roll of the counties was called with the 
following result: 

John A. Caldwell, 549 ; E. S. Wilson, 79 ; J. Park Alexan¬ 
der, 214. 

The Hon. John A. Caldwell, having received a majority of 
all the votes cast, was declared the nominee for lieutenant- 
governor. 

The committee consisting of Senators J. B. Foraker, M. A. 
Hanna and Ex-Governor Charles Foster returned and presented* 
the Hon. George K. Nash, who accepted the nomination for 
governor in the following speech: 

“Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Convention :— 
I am grateful for the very great honor which you have conferred 
upon me today. With this feeling of gratitude there comes a 
sense of responsibility. We are about to enter upon a conflict in 
behalf of the principles and policies of the Republican party. 
This battle is but a forerunner of the great conflict which will 
occur in 1900. If you love your country and your people, we 
must succeed in this contest. I enter this campaign with courage, 
because I know that I will have the loyal and hearty and efficient 
support of every man in this magnificent convention, and of 
every Republican in the state of Ohio. We will all contend 
bravely, because our great party has done more for the prosperity 
and happiness of our people, and for freedom, than any other 
political party in the country’s history. We will fight confi¬ 
dently, because we know that all new questions, whether they 
relate, to domestic or foreign policies, will be more wisely settled 
by the Republican party than they could be by our political oppo- 


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nents. If the people in November next ratify your choice for 
governor made today, I will have one pervading ambition, and 
that ambition will always be to serve all the people of Ohio to the 
best of my ability, and to conduct the business affairs of this 
state in the most economical and efficient manner possible. I 
will have another purpose which I will be very much in earnest 
about, and that is to bring into harmonious action all the men 
who love the Republican party, so that we may have the same 
magnificent victories in the future that we have had in the past, 
and one of those victories will be the re-election of our president, 
William McKinley. Gentlemen, from the bottom of my heart, I 
thank you for your very great kindness.” 

The next business in order being the nominations for Audi¬ 
tor of State, the Hon. Myron T. Herrick nominated the Hon. 
Walter D. Guilbert, of Noble, and moved the suspension of the 
rules, and that he be renominated by acclamation. There being 
no other nominations the convention then proceeded to vote viva 
voce, and the vote was unanimous. The Hon. Walter D. Guil¬ 
bert having received the unanimous vote of the convention was 
declared the nominee for Auditor of State. 

The next business in order being the nominations for Attor¬ 
ney General, on the call of Clark county the Hon. George W. 
Rawlings nominated for said office the Hon. Chase Stewart, 
of Clark county. 

On the call of Crawford county, the Hon. S. D. Fess 
nominated for said office the Hon. Frank S. Monnett, of Craw¬ 
ford county. 

On the call of Clinton county, the Hon. J. M. Thomas 
nominated for said office the Hon. E. J. West, of Clinton county. 

On the call of Darke county, the Hon. J. M. Cole nomi¬ 
nated for said office the Hon. J. I. Allread, of Darke county. 

On the call of Delaware county, the Hon. George Coyner 
nominated for said office the Hon. George W. Carpenter, of 
Delaware. 

On the call of Erie county, the Hon. Scott Bonham nomi¬ 
nated for said office the Hon. Linn W. Hull, of Erie county. 


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On the call of Lake county, the Hon. A. G. Reynolds nom¬ 
inated for said office the Hon. Homer Harper, of Lake county. 

On the call of Putnam county, the Hon. J. H. Brigham 
nominated for said office the Hon. John M. Sheets, of Putnam. 

On the call of Seneca county, the Hon. Charles Foster 
nominated for said office the Hon. John L. Lott, of Seneca county. 

There being no other nominations, the convention proceeded 
to vote by ballot; the roll of the counties was called with the fol¬ 
lowing results : 

Chas. Stewart, 99. 

J. I. Allread, 53. 

Frank S. Monnett, 29. 

E. J. West, 63. 

George W. Carpenter, 129. 

Linn W. Hull, 159. 

Homer Harper, 100. 

John M. Sheets, no. 

John L. Lott, 59. 

No one having received a majority of the votes, the chair 
declared there had been no choice and ordered the second ballot. 
The roll of the counties was called with the following result: 

Chas. Stewart, 92. 

Franks. Monnett, 1. 

E. J. West, 33. 

George W. Carpenter, 208. 

Linn W. Hull, 193. 

Homer Harper, 120. 

John M. Sheets, 149. 

John L. Lott, 8. 

No one having received a majority of the votes, the chair 
declared there had been no choice and ordered the third ballot. 
The roll of the counties was called and had reached Mercer 
county, when the Hon. J. W. Keifer moved the suspension of the 
rules and the nomination by acclamation of Jacob M. Sheets. 
The motion prevailed. The Hon. John M. Sheets having re¬ 
ceived the unanimous vote of the convention, was declared the 
nominee for Attorney General. 


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The next business in order being the nominations for Judge 
of the Supreme Court, on the call of Marion county, the Hon. 
G. E. Mouser nominated for said office the Hon. W. Z. Davis, of 
Marion county. 

On the call of Meigs county, the Hon. John J. Sullivan nomi¬ 
nated for said office the Hon. Joseph P. Bradbury, of Meigs 
county. 

On the call of Greene county, the Hon. Seth W. Brown 
nominated for said office the Hon. C. C. Shearer, of Greene 
county. 

There being no other nominations, the convention proceeded 
to vote by ballot. The roll of the counties was called with the 
following result: 

W. Z. Davis, 388. 

C. C. Shearer, 143. 

J. P. Bradbury, 283. 

No one having received a majority of the votes, the chair 
declared there had been no choice and ordered the second ballot. 
The roll of the counties was called, with the following result: 

W. Z. Davis, 511. 

C. C. Shearer, 34. 

J. P. Bradbury, 253. 

The Hon. W. Z. Davis having received a majority of all the 
votes cast, was declared the nominee for Supreme Judge. 

The next business in order being the nominations for Mem¬ 
ber of the State Board of Public Works, the Hon. Scott Bon¬ 
ham nominated for said office the Hon. Frank A. Huffman, of Van 
Wert county, and moved the suspension of the rules and that he 
be renominated by acclamation. There being no other nominations, 
the convention then proceeded to vote viva voce, and the vote 
was unanimous. The Hon. Frank A. Huffman having received 
the unanimous vote of the convention was declared the nominee 
for Member of State Board of Public Works. 

On motion of the Hon. Scott Bonham, the eagle was selected 
as the emblem of the Republican state ticket. 


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On motion of the Hon. Scott Bonham, the state central 
committee was authorized to fill all vacancies that may occur on 
the state ticket. 

On motion of the Hon. Scott Bonham, the convention ad* 
journed. 


APPENDIX A.. 


* # ^ 

Biographical 

Sketches 


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HON. GEORGE K. NASH 















HON. GEORGE K. NASH. 


G EORGE KILBON NASH, the youngest son of Asa and 
Electa Branch Nash, was born in York township, Medina 
•county, Ohio, August 14, 1842. 

George K. Nash is a descendant of colonial stock. In 1639 
his paternal ancestor, a blacksmith by trade, landed in America 
and erected his forge in Massachusetts, where he lived through 
his generation and where his descendants after him lived for more 
than a century, taking part in all revolutionary movements of the 
New England colonies against English aggression and oppression. 
Among the descendants of this ancestor a number have been dis¬ 
tinguished in the realm of law and literature, conspicuous among 
them being Hon. Simeon Nash, of Gallipolis, author of a number 
of valuable treatises on the law. Asa Nash, the father v of George, 
was a man of unusual force and independence of character. He 
was born in the }'ear 1800, in Massachusetts, where he grew to 
manhood and engaged in agricultural pursuits; and there mar¬ 
ried Electa Branch, a young woman several years his junior, a 
daughter of Dr. Nathan Branch, a practising physician in the 
state of New York. While still living in Massachusetts two sons 
were born unto Asa and Electa Nash. 

About the year 1830, Asa Nash came west and established a 
home in Medina county, Ohio, where a little later he brought his 
wife and their two small boys, accompanied by Dr. Branch. 
They were, therefore, among the pioneers of York township, 
which was organized in 1832, where Asa Nash died in the year 
1871 at the advanced age of seventy-one, having led a quiet, 
industrious farming life all his days, and where also Electa, his 
wife, died after a long and useful life. 

Asa Nash was a man of strong religious convictions; in poli¬ 
tics he was a Freesoil Whig, and later a Republican. He was an 
admirer of and co-worker in the cause of human freedom with 
the great “liberator,” William Lloyd Garrison. He was as 
familiar with young Garrison’s career as he was with his own. 
He knew by heart the story of the organization of the New Eng¬ 
land Anti-Slavery Society; the efforts of William Lloyd Garrison 


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and the eleven other brave and fearless men who met in that 
obscure school-room for colored children, under the auditorium 
of the African Baptist church, on Belknap street, Boston, that 
bleak night, January 6, 1832, “when it seemed that nature wa& 
frowning upon the new effort to abolish slavery;” and where they 
declared: “We hold that whoever retains his fellowman in bond¬ 
age is guilty of grievous wrong,” and that they would “ endeavor 
by all means, sanctioned by law, humanity and religion, to effect 
the abolition of slavery in the United States.” This story and 
these burning words sank deep into the mind of Asa Nash and 
became a part of his creed. A man of superior intelligence, 
thoroughly informed on all the great public questions of his day, 
impressed them upon the minds of his growing boys; so it is not 
singular that when his son, George, came to take part in political 
affairs he should place himself in the ranks beside his father with, 
those opposing the aggression of the slave power. 

The childhood and early youth of George Nash were passed 
on his father’s farm, and his associations, aside from those of his 
family, were confined to the country children of his neighbor¬ 
hood. His moral training, as well as his rudimentary education, 
devolved upon his mother, a woman of great presence of mind, 
courage and patience, with rare mental and religious endow¬ 
ments, which eminently fitted her for so delicate and important a 
duty. 

In his youth and early manhood George was not of robust 
health. It was apparent, therefore, that he would not be able to 
endure the arduous duties of farm life; so it became necessary fo 
him to choose some other vocation. His inclination was toward 
a professional life and he chose the law. This would require a 
broader education than could be obtained in the common schools. 
His family belonged to that class known as the not wealthy but 
well-to-do farmers, and the profits of the farm would not with¬ 
out difficulty meet the expense of a college education; 
Undaunted, the young man applied himself to study at the fire¬ 
side and in the common schools, by which, together with one 
year in the preparatory school at Hudson, Ohio, he was qualified 
to teach a common school. Thus equipped, he pursued that pro¬ 
fession until the fall of 1862, when he matriculated as a freshman 
in Oberlin College. 



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During - these years the war of the Rebellion was raging and 
the young men of the North everywhere were responding to the 
call of their country. George Nash made two attempts to enlist, 
but, physically unable to meet the requirements of the rigid 
examination, he was both times rejected. Finally in 1864, Pres¬ 
ident Lincoln called for the enlistment of troops, to be known as 
the National Guard, in order to relieve the veteran troops doing 
garrison duty. In this National Guard, George Nash enlisted, 
and the physical requirements being less rigid, he was accepted 
in Company K, 150th O. V. I., a regiment conspicuous for its 
personnel. Among its members who have achieved prominence in 
civil and political life are Major J. Dwight Palmer, who, after his 
discharge from the army, was unfortunately stricken blind, but 
has since been three times elected to the Ohio legislature from 
Cuyahoga county; Marcus A. Hanna, U. S. senator and chair¬ 
man of the National Republican Committee; and E. O Wolcott, 
U. S. senator from Colorado. 

Immediately on its organization, the 150th regiment, under 
orders of the President, proceeded to Washington, and was 
assigned to duty in the several forts around that city. Company 
“ K ” was assigned to Fort Stephens, relieving the veteran troops 
stationed there. On the nth day of July, the Confederate Gen¬ 
eral Early, in an attempt to break through our lines, and thus 
gain possession of the capital, made an assault upon Fort 
Stephens. A severe engagement followed, which lasted through 
two days; but the Confederates were finally repulsed, and, 
having sustained severe loss, abandoned the effort to capture 
Washington. At the end of his term of enlistment, Private 
George Nash, together with his company, was mustered out of 
service. 

When discharged Mr. Nash returned to his home in Medina 
county, in impaired health, and, being admonished by his 
physician that it would be dangerous for him to attempt to undergo 
the confinement incident to a student’s life in college, he engaged 
for a time in teaching. After having taught several terms of 
school, he determined to devote himself exclusively to the study 
of law, which he had pursued in a cursory fashion during the 
time he was occupied in teaching. The Springfield, Ohio, bar 


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attracted him, so he applied for admission as a student in the law 
firm of which R. B. Warden, a distinguished jurist and intimate 
personal friend of the late Salmon P. Chase, was the senior mem¬ 
ber, and Mr. John McGaffey, a prominent Democrat, was the 
junior member, who, in a disinterested way, has told, in the 
Maryville, Mo., Republican, as accurately as is possible after a 
lapse of thirty-five years, the story of the entrance of George K. 
Nash upon his career as a law student, as follows : 

“ In the spring of 1865, while engaged in the practice of law 
in Springfield, Ohio, a pale, smooth-faced young man came into 
my office ; he seemed somewhat bashful. When asked what I 
could do for him, he replied that he had been teaching school ; 
that he had already commenced the study of law, and he was look¬ 
ing for an office in which he could pursue his legal studies. He 
further explained that he had some money, but to continue his 
legal studies he would have to economize as much as possible. Being 
further questioned, he said his name was George Nash, and that 
he came from that part of Ohio known as the Western Reserve. 

“ I told him he was welcome to come into the office, but I 
could not afford to pay him a salary. It was, however, arranged 
for him to become a student in the office, and I agreed to fit up 
an adjoining vacant room with a bed and wash-stand. Under 
this arrangement he came into the office as a student. The 
senior member of the firm, of which I was junior, was R. B. 
Warden, an ex-judge of the Ohio Supreme Court, and George 
became a sort of protege of Judge Warden.” 

“ At that time, as I now remember him, George Nash, who 
has just received the Republican nomination for Governor of 
Ohio, was very youthful in appearance. He was extremely 
modest, and not inclined to talk much upon any subject, except 
as pertained to his legal studies. He was quiet, inoffensive and 
unobtrusive, and at first he did not impress me as one possessing 
extraordinary ability of any kind, although his language, when 
he could be induced to talk, .showed him to be a young man of 
more than average intelligence and culture, judge Warden 
seemed to place a higher estimate upon our young student than I 
did. One day he said to me : ‘ There is more in that young man 

than you dream of.’ ‘Very likely,’ I replied, ‘ but he is too 
bashful and diffident; he is not aggressive enough to become a 
good fighter, and make a great figure in the work.’ ‘Perhaps 
you mean,’ said the Judge, ‘ that his fighting qualities are not yet 
developed. ’ 

‘‘One day, some time after this conversation, George called my 
attention to an unsigned political article in the Cincinnati Com- 



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mercial. On reading it, I remarked, ‘Very good, excellent.’ 
George smiled, but said nothing. I asked him why he smiled. 
He replied, ‘ because I am pleased.’ Further questioned, he 
said, ‘ I am pleased, because I wrote the article, and I am pleased 
that you have so good an opinion of it.’ 

“ In the fall of 1865, Judge Warden moved to Columbus, and 
young Nash accompanied him. On his arrival in Columbus, his 
first work, after having been admitted to the bar, was as local 
editor of the Journal. 

“ His career as a lawyer has been one of uninterrupted 
success, and in the several official positions to which he has been 
elected, he has acquitted himself in a most creditable manner.” 

“ As prosecuting attorney of Franklin county, as attorney 
general of the state, as supreme judge, as well as in private life, 
Judge Nash has gained and retained the respect and confidence of 
his fellowmen to an unusual degree. Always genial, modest and 
good natured, he is nevertheless firm and decided, and the same 
time unassuming gentleman at all times. His fighting qualities 
have been sufficiently developed to make him a conspicuous leader 
and champion in political and forensic warfare. 

” The secret of the success of Judge Nash in the domain of 
politics is due more to his sterling worth, and to his recognized 
ability as a man, than to the arts of the scheming politician. The 
selection of Judge Nash as the Republican candidate for Governor 
of Ohio, is a distinct triumph of the best elements in politics.” 

With his advent to Columbus commenced a new era in the 
life of George K. Nash. He had not a college diploma to rec¬ 
ommend him, but he had passed successfully the early grades iii 
the school of experience. Here were developed those qualities of 
his nature that have characterized his whole life: Firmness of pur¬ 
pose; strict integrity; attentiveness to business, and a broad and 
generous sympathy for young men, especially for those making 
their way in the world against adverse circumstances. 

Mr. Hartzell Caldwell, a correspondent, in a letter to the 
Cincinnati Tribune, April 7, 1895, writes as follows: 

“The unwritten history of the lives of myriad young men 
contains crowded pages of fact that George K. Nash's kindly 
nature has contributed. Many a dark struggle for recognition, 
which would carry bread in its wake, has been brightened by his 
counsel and stimulated by his substantial aid. If these lives have 
not profited by the help which his broad soul extended, ‘let it be 
writ more in sorrow than in anger’; for he never directed them 
wrong. He has known himself the early struggles which end in 


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triumph for the strong and failure for the weak; and his kindly 
sympathy has helped a greater number of young men than all the 
advice of all the worldly, working in a compass of equal limita¬ 
tions.” 

Possessed of strong attachments, George Nash formed firm 
and lasting friendships. On his arrival at Columbus he sought 
and secured a home in the family of James H. Beebe, the well- 
known and popular state law librarian, where he lived not as a 
mere guest, but as an honored and respected member of Mr. 
Beebe's family for nearly twenty years, the friend and counselor 
of the parents, and the associate of their rising children. He is 
a welcome guest in any Columbus home, as friendships formed in 
his early days have stood the test of time and still remain firm. 

In 1883, George K. Nash was married to Mrs. Ada 
Deshler, a widow having two children, David W., aged 9, and 
Kate Deshler, aged 5. His marriage was a pleasant one. To 
this happy union, in 1884, a daughter, Mary A., was born. Judge 
Nash bestowed his generous affections alike upon all three of 
these delightful children, which was in turn fully reciprocated by 
them. I11 1896, after a brief illness, Mrs. Nash died, leaving to 
the Judge the care of this family of small children. Never shrink¬ 
ing from this grave responsibility, he maintained the household 
as the mother of these little orphans had left it, even retaining 
in their places for many years the household servants, some of 
whom still make his house their home. 

After the death of Mrs. Nash, the Judge for some time 
eschewed public life and devoted himself exclusively to the 
practice of his profession, in order to make secure a future com¬ 
petence for the little ones thus left to his charge. But in 1897, 
death again entered his home and carried away his daughter 
Mary, a bright and charming girl of thirteen years. 

Crushed and disheartened by these sad bereavements, 
his friends demanding that he become a candidate, he again 
sought solace in public life, and on the 2nd day of June, 
by the Republican State Convention, after a spirited but friendly 
contest in which were engaged some of the brightest minds of the 
state, he was nominated for Governor on the second ballot, with- 
practical unanimity. 


BIOGRAPHY OF HON. GKORGK K. NASH. 


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When George Nash came to Columbus in 1865, and entered 
upon his career as a law student, he was compelled to encounter 
all the obstacles that beset the path of a young man among 
strangers in a cosmopolitan city like the capital of a great state- 
The first duty that presented itself to him was how to provide 
ways and means to sustain himself while preparing for the active 
•duties of life. Ready to engage in any honorable employment, 
his first step was to place in the State Journal an advertisement 
offering his services as an instructor to any young person desiring 
to be prepared for college. To this call one young man responded, 
and George faithfully performed his part of the contract by 
repairing at regular intervals to an obscure residence on Front 
•street, where he devoted himself to his task until his pupil was 
fully prepared, and formally passed the required examinations. 
In the meantime he had secured employment as a local reporter 
for the Ohio State Journal, and finally became city editor of that 
paper. During his employment with the State Journal, through 
his associations with Judge Warden, he became acquainted with 
Colonel Don Piatt, a conspicuous soldier of the War of the 
Rebellion, a brilliant writer, and subsequently an author of dis¬ 
tinction. Colonel Piatt, at that time, was a member of the legis¬ 
lature, representing Champaign county. His acquaintance with 
the young law student and journalist ripened into a firm friend¬ 
ship, and through his efforts, George K. Nash was elected enroll¬ 
ing clerk of the house of representatives. 

In the fall of 1869, he was appointed chief clerk in the office 
of the secretary of state, which position he held until the fall of 
1S70, when he was elected prosecuting attorney of Franklin 
county. At that time Franklin county was solidly Democratic, 
having a normal majority of about 1500. George K. Nash, with a 
full Republican ticket, was nominated as a kind of forlorn hope ; 
but in spite of the fact that Mr. Nash was chairman of the 
Republican county committee, and as such made a vigorous con. 
test for the whole Republican ticket, he was elected by 396 votes 
over his Democratic competitor, greatly reducing the Democratic 
majority in the county. Entering upon the duties of law officer 
of the county, he devoted himself to retrenchments and reform in 
the management of the county’s affairs. In one civil case alone 


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he saved the county $18,000 ; and many other cases of retrench¬ 
ment were conspicuous. Besides his civil docket he had a very 
large criminal docket. One capital case in particular attracted 
the attention of the bar throughout the state ; and in the prose¬ 
cution of all criminal cases he was pre-eminently successful. So- 
acceptably to the voters of the county generally, as well as to the 
county officials, who were all Democrats, and to the business men 
of Columbus without regard to party, did he perform the duties- 
of the office of prosecuting attorney, that two years later, in 1872, 
in the overwhelming Democratic county of Franklin, he was re¬ 
elected by a majority of 793, while all the other candidates on the 
Democratic ticket were elected by a majority of 2,097. This- 
being a presidential campaign, managed by Hon. John G. 
Thompson, the recognized leader of the Democratic party in 
Ohio, and distinguished by his exceptional genius for organiza¬ 
tion, it was a thorough test of the personal strength of George K. 
Nash in the city of Columbus. About two mouths before the 
expiration of his second term as prosecuting attorney, legal busi¬ 
ness, which it seemed would lay the foundation for a substantial 
practice, being offered him, but which would occupy more of 
his time than could be spared from his public duties, he resigned, 
and entered successfully on the general practice of the law, in 
Columbus, Hon. Joseph H. Outhwaite being appointed to fill 
the vacancy. 

In 1877, at Cleveland, the Republican state convention nom¬ 
inated him the candidate for attorney general, with Hon. W. H.. 
West, of Belief on taine, the candidate for governor. This being; 
the year immediately following the presidential election of 1876, 
called in political parlance the “off year,” the Republican ticket 
was defeated; but Mr. Nash received the largest vote given any 
candidate on the ticket, running 2,323 ahead of the average vote 
and 9,718 ahead of the candidate receiving the lowest vote. 

In 1879, with Hon. Charles Foster, the candidate for gover¬ 
nor, Mr. Nash was renominated and re-elected attorney general,, 
running 1047 ahead of the average vote given the ticket and 3724. 
ahead of the candidate receiving the lowest number of votes. 

In 1881 he was renominated by the Republican state conven¬ 
tion, with Hon. Charles Foster again the candidate for governor 




BIOGRAPHY OF HON. GEORGE K. NASH. 


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and was again elected, receiving 2329 over the average vote on 
the ticket and 3876 over the vote for the lowest candidate. In 
April, 1883, before the close of his second term, he was appointed 
by Governor Foster a member of the supreme court commission 
for the term of two years, and so resigned the office of attorney 
general. Hon. D. A. Hollingsworth, of Cadiz, was appointed to 
fill the vacancy. 

Judge Nash’s time of service on the bench was comparatively 
brief. His written opinions are not numerous, but are charac¬ 
terized by clearness of statement, and cogency of reasoning. His- 
conclusions are sustained more by the strength and soundness of 
the legal reasons set forth than by the citation of a long line of 
decided cases. 

Conspicuous among the many cases conducted by him as 
attorney general was the famous “Big Four” consolidation suit 
—the State of Ohio on relation of the Attorney General vs. Wil¬ 
liam H. Vanderbilt et al. This case was brought by Attorney 
General Nash to test the validity of the consolidation of the two- 
pafallel lines of railroad running through the state of Ohio, the 
C., C., C. & I. and the C., H. & D. railroad companies. These 
lines were owned by the Vanderbilt system, backed by millions- 
of dollars, and by men distinguished for their talent and power 
in the railroad world—the most powerful railroad corporation in 
the Union. The importance of the case may be judged by the- 
eminence of the counsel engaged. Associated with Attorney 
General Nash on behalf of the state were Kx-Secretary of the U. 
S. Treasury, B. H. Bristow, Hon. Aaron F. Perry, Hon. E. A. 
Ferguson and Messrs. Converse, Booth and Keating. The defen¬ 
dants were represented by Judge Rufus P. Ranney, Judge Steph¬ 
enson Burke, Hon. J. J. Glidden and Messrs. Harrison, Olds and 
Marsh. It was a battle royal between lions of the bar, every 
point being hotly and stubbornly contested. The “pale, smooth¬ 
faced young man” of 1865, who was thought too timid and not 
aggressive enough to become a “goodfighter,” stood in 1881 face 
to face with intellectual giants of the legal profession, leading a. 
fight for the people of the .state against one of the most powerful 
corporations in the world. His argument to the court was a. 
wonderfully clear presentation of the state’s side of the case and 


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it won. The triumph of honesty, industry and perseverance was 
•complete. The case attracted national attention and the argu¬ 
ment of the attorney general, as well as the decision of the 
supreme court, have been the text for a number of decisions by 
courts of other states. 

Among the notable cases in which Judge Nash has been 
engaged in behalf of the people and good government, demand¬ 
ing an intimate and thorough knowledge of general and muni¬ 
cipal law and public affairs, he was associate counsel in the 
prosecution of the celebrated cases involving “the notorious 
•election frauds” in Cincinnati; he was the leading counsel in the 
prosecution of the well-known “Columbus Tally-Sheet For¬ 
gery cases,” and in the contested election case of E. L. Eamp- 
son vs. William V. Marquis, which involved the office of lieu¬ 
tenant governor; and he was also leading counsel in the case in 
which was tested the constitutionality of the Bosler law to redis¬ 
trict the judicial circuits; and in the Columbus Charter Cases. 

The qualities which have given him high rank as a lawyer 
have been tested in connection with public affairs and the practi¬ 
cal working of party politics. Since his admission to the bar, 
■even to the present day, he has been the legal adviser of the 
Republican state committee, which service he has performed with¬ 
out compensation. The breadth of his activity has been shown, 
not only in the management of his party in his adopted city, but 
his ability as a party leader and manager has been recognized by 
liis being chosen four times chairman of the Republican state 
•executive committee. He was first elected chairman in 1880. That 
year General Garfield was nominated the candidate for President. 
A more malignant campaign was never made against any candi¬ 
date; and but for the careful and shrewd management of Chairman 
Nash it is likely the party would have lost the state. This was 
•one of the most, if not the most, stubbornly contested campaigns 
in the history of the Republican party. Ohio was the pivotal 
state, being one of the few states that held its election for state 
officers in October preceding the November election. This 
afforded the Democrats an opportunity to flood the state with 
repeaters from Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Boston and 
other cities and states not holding October elections. The whole 


BIOGRAPHY OF HON. GEORGE K. NASH. 61 

power of the opposition, therefore, was thrown against Ohio in its 
campaign. Garfield was subjected to most malicious attacks 
from every quarter. In was in this year that the notorious 
“Morey letter forgery” was perpetrated and promulgated by the 
Democratic national committee. More than a million of this 
infamous document were scattered broadcast throughout Ohio. To 
counteract this it required the most vigilant, active and aggres¬ 
sive work ; but Chairman Nash, always equal to the occasion, 
held more meetings than in any previous or subsequent cam¬ 
paign. On one single day and night, in September, two hun¬ 
dred and fifty speeches were made under assignment by the state 
committee. For this great labor the Republican party was 
rewarded by a most substantial victory in October and the elec¬ 
tion of General Garfield in November. 

Again in 1881, Mr. Nash was elected chairman of the state 
committee ; that year President Garfield was stricken down by 
the hand of an assassin, and lay upon his death-bed. Not since 
the assassination of Lincoln had this country passed such a fear¬ 
ful crisis. The wheels of commerce stood still, while business of 
all kinds was stagnant. Ominous mutterings of discontent 
among the people were heard on all hands, and the country was 
on the brink of anarchy. These conditions rendered the treat¬ 
ment of the situation most delicate; but Chairman Nash rose to 
the emergency, and piloted the party to success, electing, not only 
Governor Foster, and the whole state ticket, but a majority of the 
legislature. The conduct of this campaign was a masterpiece of 
political management. 

Mr. Nash was selected a third time to manage the less im¬ 
portant campaign of 1882, and again a fourth time in 1897, the 
“ off year,” following the arduous presidential campaign of 1896, 
in which he again succeeded in leading his party to victory, elect¬ 
ing the whole state ticket, and a majority in the general assembly. 

Hon. Chas. Foster, who was governor of the state while Mr. 
Nash served as attorney general, and member of the supreme 
court commission, and who knows Nash thoroughly, in a pub¬ 
lished interview, speaks of him in the following high terms : 

“ Judge Nash is a perfectly honorable man, as honorable in 
politics as he is honorable in private life. He is a very able man, 





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BIOGRAPHY OF HON. GEORGE K. NASH. 


as I have good cause to know. Because of liis modesty his abili¬ 
ties are underrated by some people. He is a man who is above 
control by any but the highest motives, because of his conscientious 
convictions, and the strong courage which he never hesitates to 
show in defending what he believes is right.” 

With a character and reputation unassailable ; sound judg¬ 
ment ; familiarity with public questions, both state and municipal, 
and a thorough knowledge of the practical workings of party 
politics, including his tact and courage, he is eminently fitted for 
the discharge of the responsible duties of the Chief Magistrate of 
the State of Ohio. 











HON. JOHN A. CALDWELL. 




























HON. JOHN A. CALDWELL. 



OHN A. CALDWELL was born in the quaint, beautiful 


J village of Fair Haven, Preble county, Ohio, April i, 1852. 
He received a common school education in his native village, 
supplemented by a course in mathematics and Latin under the 
tutorship of the Rev. J. Y. Schouler, D. D. Like many other 
sturdy Buckeye boys, he made his own way, by working on a 
farm, clerking in the village store, teaching school, carefully 
saving his money, to pay the expenses of a thorough course in 
the study of his chosen profession. He graduated from the Cin¬ 
cinnati Law School in 1876, and taught school during 
the fall and winter of 1877, and in the spring of 
1878 entered upon the practice of law in Cincinnati. 
Mr. Caldwell became deeply interested in the study of muni¬ 
cipal affairs, and in 1881, the Republican party, recognizing 
his fitness, nominated him for city prosecuting attorney, to 
which position he was elected and again re-elected in 1883. In 
1885, Judge Fitzgerald, a man of great popularity, defeated Mr. 
Caldwell for police judge of Cincinnati, but so strong was the 
personal popularity of Mr. Caldwell, that in 1887 he, in turn, 
defeated Judge Fitzgerald for the same office. Before he com¬ 
pleted his term as police judge, he was nominated for congress 
by the Republican party, to represent the Second Ohio district. 
He was elected and re-elected in 1890 and 1892. 

As congressman from the Second district, he was con¬ 
spicuous as an advocate of all measures to protect the working¬ 
men, and afford justice and relief to the soldiers. He strongly 
advocated the eight-hour bill, under the provision of which gov¬ 
ernment contractors are prevented from forcing their men to 
work more than eight hours. He was the author of the bill to 
prevent the desecrations of the American flag, and also of the 
Anti-Lottery bill. He made the favorable report that secured 
the enactment of the Car Coupler law, requiring all railroad com¬ 
panies to adopt safety couplers on all trains engaged in interstate 
commerce. He successfully advocated the reclassification of the 


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BIOGRAPHY OF HON. JOHN A. CALDWELL. 


various postal employees, under which all railway postal clerks 
and letter-carriers are now working. He took a firm stand 
against the employment of convict labor on government contracts, 
and was the author of a bill to require all prison-made goods, of 
whatever character, to be stamped, so as to show where and in 
what prison they were manufactured. 

While Judge Caldwell was serving his third term in congress, 
it became necessary to Republican success in Cincinnati that the 
party select as its candidate for mayor the strongest possible 
candidate before the people. Judge Caldwell was nominated to 
head the municipal ticket, and he patriotically put aside his 
congressional career, and was elected mayor of Cincinnati. 

Judge Caldwell was among those who first advocated the 
Republican League of Ohio, and was afterwards unanimously 
elected president of the league. 

He was married in 1876 to Miss Anna Eversull, of Mount 
Airy, Hamilton county, Ohio. Three children are the offspring 
of this marriage, John A., Jr., now a medical student, Bessie 
and Robert. 

Judge Caldwell and family make their home in Cummins- 
ville, the 25th ward of Cincinnati, and are members of the Pres¬ 
byterian church. Judge Caldwell is a member of the following 
orders : Scottish Rite Masonry, Shriner, the Independent Order 
of Odd Fellows, Ancient Order of United Workmen, Knights of 
Honor, National Union and of the Sanford Bundy Camp Sons of 
Veterans. 






HON. WALTER D. GUILBERT. 


















HON. WALTER D. QUILBERT. 


W ALTER D. GUILBERT was born February 11, 1844, 
near Hartford, in Guernsey county. Mr. Guilbert’s 
great-grandfather on the maternal side came to Maryland from 
Ireland in 1750. He served in the Revolutionary Army, being 
wounded several times, and narrowly escaping capture. As his 
name indicates, Mr. Guilbert is a descendant of the French 
Huguenots. 

His father, Hellar E. Guilbert, was a native of France. He 
emigrated to the United States when a boy and became one of 
the pioneers of Guernsey county. He turned his attention to 
agricultural pursuits and became one of the honored and repre¬ 
sentative farmers of that county; and continued his residence 
there until 1849, when he moved with his family to Clark county, 
where he lived for four years; then he moved to Shelby county, 
where he died in 1856. 

Walter D. Guilbert was educated in the public schools of 
Guernsey and Auglaize counties, and also completed a special 
course of study in the academy at Winona, Illinois. He became 
a resident of Noble county in 1869, and for a period of twelve 
years was engaged in the dry goods business at South Olive, 
Noble county, Ohio. He was elected auditor of Noble county in 
1881, and served two terms with great acceptability to his con¬ 
stituents. 

Beginning with the administration of Auditor Poe, in 1888, 
he filled two terms, of three years each, as chief clerk of the 
department. He was nominated and elected as auditor of state 
in 1895, an d, for his efficiency and devotion to his duty he was 
renominated by acclamation. 

By virtue of his position, he is a member of the State Sink¬ 
ing Fund and other important commissions. 

Mr. Guilbert is strictly a business man, having at his com¬ 
mand the most minute details of his important work. He is 
withal a gentleman of culture, intelligence and broad commercial 
experience, which fits him most peculiarly for his present position. 

Always affable and courteous, he commands the confidence 
and admiration of a host of friends. 




HON. ISAAC B. CAMERON. 













HON. ISAAC B. CAMERON. 


ISAAC BAIN CAMERON is a Caledonian by birth, having first 
1 opened his eyes to the light of day in the City of Nairn, Nairn¬ 
shire, Scotland, June 15, 1851. When the lad was but an infant in 
arms his father died, and the widowed mother determined to mi¬ 
grate to America, where the facilities for the proper education of her 
little family, of which the subject of this sketch was the youngest 
of six, were better, and where the opportunities for success in 
after life were more abundant. Upon reaching this country the 
family came direct to Eastern Ohio, and made their home near 
the village of Salineville, Columbiana county. There the children 
of the family were reared to honorable and honored man and 
womanhood. 

The subject of this sketch never enjoyed the opportunity of 
securing a collegiate education, but was perforce content with 
such schooling as could be secured in the schools of Columbiana 
county. Eater, as life’s requirements opened before him and he 
realized that success in business demanded a thorough knowledge 
of business methods, he attended the Iron City Business College, 
at Pittsburg, and graduated with honors from that noted institu¬ 
tion of commercial instruction. At an early age Mr. Cameron 
accepted a position as clerk in a general store in Salineville, 
where so profitably did he study the problems of business and so 
carefully did he follow the systems of. frugality for which his 
race is noted, that in the course of time he became a partner in 
the business, and finally its sole owner. 

Mr. Cameron has always been a Republican in politics, and 
has ever assumed an active share in the party work. Scarcely 
had he reached his majority when he was chosen a member of the 
county central committee, a position which he continued to 
occupy until recently chosen, for the third time, chairman of the 
county executive committee, in which capacity he continues to 
serve the Republicans of Columbiana county. He is also chair¬ 
man of the Eighteenth District congressional committee, and 
during the campaign of 1893 was a member of the state execu¬ 
tive committee. 



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BIOGRAPHY OF HON. ISAAC B. CAMERON. 


Iii 1893 Mr. Cameron was elected treasurer of Columbiana 
county by a majority the largest ever given to any candidate for 
any office in the county up to that time, and was re-elected in 
1895. The business system he introduced and enforced during 
the four years of his incumbency in the office established a stan¬ 
dard and created a model worthy the ambition and emulation of 
every public official. 4 

When the First National bank of Lisbon was forced to the 
wall, a year since, owing to the questionable business methods of 
the cashier, Mr. Cameron was the unanimous choice, alike of the 
creditors and stockholders, for the appointment as receiver, to 
disentangle the complications created by faulty business practices 
and other reckless manipulations of the affairs of the institution. 
In this work he has been engaged for nearly a year, and apply¬ 
ing to the duties the salutary business methods that brought him 
success in other lines, has progressed far toward a solution of the 
many and varied complications there presented. 

Mr. Cameron was nominated for state treasurer at the con¬ 
vention held recently in Columbus on the first ballot—a compli¬ 
ment which the representatives of the Republican voters of the 
state honored themselves by bestowing. 

















HON. JOHN M. SHEETS. 




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HON. JOHN M. SHEETS. 


J OHN M. SHEETS was born near Columbus Grove, Putnam 
county, Ohio, May 26, 1854. His father was a Pennsyl¬ 
vanian, of German ancestry; his mother a New England Yankee. 
He was educated in the public schools, and at the age of twenty 
began teaching. Afterwards he attended the Union school at 
Columbus Grove, and in the fall of 1876 entered the fresh¬ 
man class in Baldwin University, at Berea, Ohio. He was an 
indefatigable student and completed a four-years’ course in 
three, besides taking a number of elective studies. Mathematics 
being his special forte, he took every branch taught in the Uni¬ 
versity, save one. 

In the fall of 1879 he entered the law department of the Uni¬ 
versity of Michigan, and graduated in March, 1881. On April 
5th, following, he was admitted to the bar by the supreme court 
of Ohio, where he now resides, and where he soon acquired 
and now enjoys, an extensive practice. 

In-1893 h e was nominated the candidate of the Republican 
party for judge of the common pleas court, in the sub-judicial 
district, composed of the counties of Fulton, Henry and Putnam, 
being the first Republican ever nominated in that sub-division, 
on account of the fact that it was so overwhelmingly Demo¬ 
cratic, that no Republican would accept the nomination. Mr. 
Sheets, however, with his characteristic courage, accepted the 
nomination, and as an evidence of his popularity among the people 
of the counties composing the sub-division, he was elected by 
over 1700 majority ; he was renominated in 1898, and while the 
Democratic majority on the general ticket was 2086, Judge Sheets 
came within thirty votes of being elected, thus indicating the 
high esteem in which he was held by his constituents. 

On assuming the office of judge, on his first term, he found 
the court very greatly overcrowded with business, so much so, in¬ 
deed, that several attempts had been made to secure legislation 
authorizing an additional judge in said sub-division ; but Judge 
Sheets developed an unusual capacity for the despatch of business, 
and in a short time, the docket was cleared. His business metli- 



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BIOGRAPHY OF HON. JOHN M. SHEETS. 


ods were very popular, and his services on the bench were in 
demand. He has received very many high compliments, from both 
the bench and the bar, as well as the press of his districts, on his 
ability as a judge, as well as on his conspicuous business methods. 

While a student at the University of Michigan, he became 
acquainted with Miss Mary E. Scott, also a student at the same 
University, whom he married March 22, 1862, and five daughters 
have come to bless them. 

John M. Sheets, as boy and man, always enjoyed the confi¬ 
dence and esteem of his associates, and this was never more 
striking than in his student days at Ann Arbor ; and as an in¬ 
stance, his acquaintanceship with Hon. H. M. Daugherty is 
conspicuous. They first met as students at the University, and 
their relations developed a close personal friendship which has 
ever since continued. They were students in the same class, and 
graduated at the same time, and it was a pleasant surprise to 
both when they met in the same class for examination for 
admission to the bar, where they were both admitted to the prac¬ 
tice of the law. 

At the Republican State Convention at Columbus, held June 
1st and 2nd, after a spirited contest, he was, on the third ballot, 
nominated the candidate for attorney general ; his nomination, 
before the call of the roll of the counties was completed, being 
made unanimous by acclamation. 

Judge Sheets has always been an active, aggressive Repub¬ 
lican, and never hid his light under a bushel, but withal, a 
liberal and fair opponent. 





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HON. W. Z. DAVIS. 


W ILLIAM Z. DAVIS was born in Loydsville, Belmont 
county, Ohio, June io, 1839. His father, Dr. Bushrod 
Washington Davis, was a native of Virginia and a descendant of 
the old Revolutionary stock of that name in the Old Dominion. 
His mother before her marriage was Miss Harriet Hatcher, a 
native of Belmont county. 

The early life of Mr. Davis, was spent in the villages of Loyds¬ 
ville and Somerton, in his native county. His father having 
removed to Osborn, in Greene county, he attended school at Day- 
ton and Miami City, and subsequently taught school. Having 
settled in Marion county, he was for a time employed in the office 
of the clerk of the courts, but soon began the study of law under 
the preceptorship of Gen. Janies H. Godman and his $on, H. C. 
Godman.. 

In 1861 he responded to the first call for troops, serving in 
the 4th Ohio, and after the expiration of the three months’ enlist¬ 
ment he resumed his law studies, and in 1862 was admitted to 
the bar by the Supreme Court. Soon after he enlisted again, in 
the 96th Regiment of Ohio Volunteers, and remained in the ser¬ 
vice until he was physically disabled and was honorably dis¬ 
charged. During his military service he participated in the bat¬ 
tles of Chickasaw Bayou and Arkansas Post. 

After regaining his health Mr. Davis began the practice of 
the law in the office of Judge W. H. West, in Bellefontaine, but 
soon after, in 1864, he returned to Marion and entered into part¬ 
nership with Mr. H. C. Godman, under the firm name of Godman 
& Davis. 

Since his engagement in the law practice at Marion he has 
devoted himself exclusively to its pursuits and rapidly advanced 
to the front rank at the bar. He sustains an excellent reputa¬ 
tion as a lawyer and has established a large civil practice, extend¬ 
ing into all the state and federal courts. His solid reputation 
with the legal profession was shown when Democratic lawyers, 
not only at his own home but also in various other sections of 
the state, openly recommended and urged his nomination. 



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BIOGRAPHY OF HON. W. Z. DAVIS. 


Heretofore he has not been a candidate for office, preferring 
the pursuit of his profession; but he is a Republican from prin¬ 
ciple, devoted and outspoken in his advocacy of Republicanism 
and a firm supporter of the administration of President McKinley. 
Many years ago, before the President entered upon his congress¬ 
ional career, Mr. McKinley and Mr. Davis were opposing counsel 
in an important litigation concerning large business interests. 
The case attracted general attention. The contest was long and 
earnest, with varying results; but Mr. Davis was at last success¬ 
ful in the defense of his client; yet from that time William 
McKinley has had a host of loyal and admiring friends in Marion, 
and none of them more sincere and unselfish in his friendship 
than Mr. Davis. 

He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church and takes 
an active interest in church affairs. He is also a member of the 
fraternal order of Knights of Pythias. He is held in the highest 
esteem by his fellow-citizens. Although he is a man of positive 
convictions and makes no concealment of his views, yet such is 
his habitual fairness and liberality to opponents that on his return 
from Columbus, after receiving the nomination, he was greeted 
with a genuine ovation by the citizens of the city of Marion, of 
all states and conditions in life and of allshadesof political opinion. 








HON. FRANK A. HUFFMAN 








HON. FRANK A. HUFFMAN. 


F RANK A. HUFFMAN was born near Beaver Dam, Allen 
county, Ohio, on October 17, 1859. His paternal grand¬ 
parents were natives of Germany, and his maternal ancestry is 
Scotch-Irish. 

Mr. Huffman received his early education in the public 
schools of Allen county, and graduated from the Ohio Normal 
University at Ada. He taught school a few terms, and was after¬ 
ward employed in the First National bank at Uima, Ohio, as 
bookkeeper. He resigned from the bank to avail himself of advan¬ 
tageous opportunities, and moved to Van Wert county to engage 
in the lumber business, where he still resides, and is extensively 
engaged in that occupation. 

Mr. Huffman married Miss Mary M. Desenberg, of Allen 
county, Ohio, in 1889. His family consists of his wife, one 
daughter, Anna, aged 9, and one son, Uewis, aged 5. 

In 1893 he was elected to represent Van Wert county in the 
general assembly ; and was re-elected in 1895, * n both instances 
running ahead of his ticket. In the legislature, he served on 
the committee on public works, and was a warm supporter of the 
canal system. In this connection he attracted favorable atten¬ 
tion, not only because of his thorough understanding of the busi¬ 
ness propositions involved in our system of public works, but 
also because of his knowledge of civil engineering. He was nom¬ 
inated for member of the board of public works in 1896, on the 
first ballot, over a strong field of competitors, receiving more than 
three-fifths of the votes of the convention. He has applied to 
the performance of the duties of his office the same qualities of 
straightforwardness, thoroughness and sound judgment that 
have been characteristic of his business career. 

To strict integrity, sound and conservative judgment, quick 
intelligence, and unusual business capacity, there is joined in 
Mr. Huffman, untiring energy. He is candid and open in all of 
his dealings, whether official or personal ; he is courteous to, and 
considerate of, the views of associates and opponents, in matters 
in respect to which he is called upon to take action; he is firm in 
following the dictates of his own judgment, which is always care¬ 
fully formed. His manly qualities attract and hold to him warm 
friendships ; and win for him the respect of those with whose 
views he may not be in accord. 



APPENDIX B.. 


Delegates and 
Alternates 


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NAMES OF DELEGATES AND ALTERNATES. 


ADAMS COUNTY. 


DELEGATES. 

L. J. Fenton, Winchester. 

A. C. Smith, Stout. 

L. L. Edgington, West Union. 
W. H. Johnson, Waverly. 

J. C. Rinehart, Manchester. 

E. Arnold, Locust Grove. 


ALTERNATES. 

C. W. Sutterfield, West Union. 
N. W. Zile, Locust Grove. 

J. H. McGovney, Cherry Fork. 
J. H. Copeland, Locus: Grove. 
Ben F. Games, Bradyville. 
Thomas Daulton, West Union. 


ALLEN COUNTY 


DELEGATES. 

John C. Marsh, Herring. 

E. F. Davis, Lima. 

Calvin Osborn, Lima. 

D. C. Richmond, Lima. 

S. M. Bowersock, Allentown. 
S. R. Vertner, Beaver Dam. 


ALTERNATES. 

C. V. Rumbaugh, Herring. 
W. K. Boone, Lima. 

D. C. Henderson, Lima. 

S. L. Ashton, Spencerville. 
M. J. Hosier, Delphos. 


ASHLAND COUNTY. 

DELEGATES. 

A. E. Fritzinger, Ashland. 

J. D. Backhouse, Ashland. 
Capt. E. Moores, McZena. 

B. V. Semans, Hayesville. 


ASHTABULA COUNTY 


DELEGATES. 

W. S. McKinnon, Ashtabula. 

C. F. Brotherton, Ashtabula. 
C. I. Chamberlin, Geneva. 

A. J. Ford, Geneva. 

H. W. Olds, Orwell. 

S. A. Kagy, Morgan. 

S. J. Smith, Conneaut. 

G. M. Brown, Conneaut. 

W. S. Harris, Saybrook. 
Charles Lawyer, Jefferson. 

C. L. Taylor, Jefferson. 


ALTERNATES. 

G. B. Warren, Ashtabula. 
M. W. Hissey, Ashtabula. 

E. P. Hubbell, Geneva. 

J. E. Allen, Geneva. 

A. L. Hoskins, Conneaut. 
A. W. Pelton, Conneaut. 
W. H. Dodge, New Lyme. 
A. C. Hahn, Andover. 

E. L. Hills, Jefferson. 

E. L. Lampson, Jefferson. 
J. P. Caldwell, Jefferson. 





NAMES OF DELEGATES AND ALTERNATES. 


87 


ATHENS 

DELEGATES. 

James Dow, Nelsonville. 

L. D. Lampman, Nelsonville. 

W. F. Scott, Athens. 

E. G. Biddison, Athens. 

E. D. Sayers, Athens. 

I. M. Foster, Athens. 

Orville Kreiger, Lee. 

Henry Finsterwald, Canaanville. 


COUNTY. 

ALTERNATES. 

J. C. Pickett, Nelsonville. 

E. F. Danford, Glouster. 
Fred Bougher, Athens. 

F. W. Bush, Athens. 

I. W. Miles, Garden. 

C. H. Bryson, Glouster. 

J. W. Glidden, Athens. 
John McDonald, Athens. 


AUGLAIZE COUNTY. 

DELEGATES. ALTERNATES. 

John G. Heinrich, Wapakoneta. L. W. Kattman, New Knoxville. 
O. E. Dunan, St. Marys. Christ Brodbeck, St. Marys. 

Henry Kuenzle, New Bremen. W. J. McMurray, Wapakoneta. 
Wm. Orr, Uniopolis. John R. Bennett, Waynesfield. 


BELMONT COUNTY. 

DELEGATES. ALTERNATES. 

J. E. Blackburn, Bellaire. J. W. Hollingsworth, St. Clairsv’le 

J. C. Heinlein, Bridgeport. T. M. Holt, Bellaire. 

P. B. Worthington, Barnesville. Thos. McGough, Bridgeport. 

|. Ed. Ward, Barnesville. H. W. Rowles, Bellaire. 

Sami. J. Westwood, Martin’s Ferry E. E. Gordon, Loydsville. 

J. A. Fish, Powhatan Point. E. L. McMullen, St. Clairsville. 

C. C. Carroll, St. Clairsville. John D. Hayes, St. Clairsville. 
Isaac H. Gaston, St. Clairsville. G. M. Crew, Barnesville. 

Madison Aldridge, St. Clairsville. W. E. Buchanan, Barnesville. 

L. E. Emerson, St. Clairsville. A. H. Mitchell, St. Clairsville. 

D. H. Darrah, Belleville. A. H. Holloway, Flushing. 

J. O. Potterfield, Demos. G. G. Sedgwick, Martin’s Ferry. 




88 


NAMES OF DELEGATES AND ALTERNATES. 


BROWN COUNTY. 


DELEGATES. 

Lee A. Edwards, Ripley. 

H. C. Louden, Georgetown. 
Frank Miller, Mt. Orab. 

J. T. Galbreath, Higginsport. 
Archie Johnson, Decatur. 


ALTERNATES 

Dwight Harrison, Columbus. 
D. Earhart, Columbus. 

Chas. Marshall, Ripley. 

R. K. Livingstone, Hamersvill 
Chas. McKinley, Russellville. 


BUTLER COUNTY 


DELEGATES. 

R. C. McKinney, Hamilton. 

O. V. Parish, Hamilton. 

F. P. Richter, Hamilton. 

Isaac Hale, Middletown. 

Jos. Iseminger, Middletown. 

W. B. Wallace, Oxford. 

Wm. Minton, Millville. 

G. C. Shoenberger, Westchester. 


ALTERNATES. 

J. E. Morey, Hamilton. 

Chas. I. Keeley, Hamilton. 

H. C. Blum, Hamilton. 

M. W. Goodman, Hamilton. 

J. A. Gillespie, Middletown. 
W. M. Sullivan, Middletown. 
Oscar Stout, College Corners. 
Alfred V. Johns, Trenton. 


CARROLL COUNTY. 


DELEGATES. 

Law. W. Cooper, Lindentree. 

I. B. Woods, New Harrisburg. 
John C. Thomas, Augusta. 
John W. Whitcraft, Carrollton. 


ALTERNATES. 

George S. Tinlin, Carrollton. 
Simeon Ashbrook, Carrollton. 
Ken. G. Potter, Oneida Mills. 
Wm. Moses, Malvern. 


CHAMPAIGN COUNTY. 


DELEGATES. 

Geo. W. Hitt, Urbana. 

Wm. R Wilson, Urbana. 

Benj. Dickinson, Urbana. 

W. B. Marvin, Urbana. 

J. C. Thompson, N. Lewisburg. 
E. N. Wilson, Springfield. 

Link E. Baker, Mechanicsburg. 


ALTERNATES. 

H. R. Snyder, Urbana. 
Thomas E. Hunter. 

Thomas A. Cowgill, Kennard. 
J. B. Norman. 

W. A. Stewart. 

S. E. Tullis. 

Howard Townsend. 





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CLARK 

DELEGATES. 

Asa S. Bushnell, Springfield. 

J. Warren Kiefer, Springfield. 
Stacy B. Rankin, So. Charleston 
'Chas. Nicholson, Plattsburg. 

J. B. Gaines, North Hampton. 
R. N. Elder, Selma. 

Forest Timmons, New Carlisle. 
Wm. N. Rockel, Springfield. 
Alonzo Troupe, Springfield. 
Howard Littleton, Springfield. 
John B. Jackson, Springfield. 


COUNTY. 

ALTERNATES. 

E. E. Stewart, Springfield. 

Benj. Lyons, Springfield. 

Geo. C. Rawlins, Springfield. 

A. H. Kunkle, Springfield. 
Walter L. Weaver, Springfield. 
A. N. Summers, Springfield. 
Benj. Davis, Springfield. 

H. B. Moler, Springfield. 
Baldwin McGrew, Springfield. 
Milton Cheney, So. Charleston. 
J. Wallingsford, So. Charleston. 


CLERMONT COUNTY. 

DELEGATES. 

A. W. Gilfillen, Moscow. 

Jas. R. Hicks, Amelia. 

C. W. Dawson, New Richmond. 
Geo. Printy. 

E. C. Harding. 

L. W. Hitch. 

W. W. Dennison, Batavia. 


CLINTON COUNTY. 


DELEGATES. 

Chas. Welsh, Wilmington. 
Will G. Jenkins, Wilmington. 
Elias D. Harlan, Oakland. 
Owen Brown, Blanchester. 

S. P. Haines, Sabina. 

Lewis Johnson, Bloomington. 
E. P. West, New Vienna. 


ALTERNATES. 

C. N. Browning, Wilmington. 

J. H. Luttrell, Cuba. 

Joseph G. Carter, Sabina. 

Frank Curl, Ogden. 

Edward Brackney, Lee’s Creek. 
U. Chase James, New Antioch. 
John H. Linton, Clarksville. 



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NAMES OF DELEGATES AND ALTERNATES, 


COLUMBIANA COUNTY. 


DELEGATES. 

R. W. Tayler, Lisbon. 

Frank McCord, Lisbon. 

J. G. Moore, Lisbon. 

T. J. Mason, Columbiana. 

G. V. Sharp, Salem. 

H. N. Barker, East Liverpool. 
Geo. Owen, East Liverpool. 
Geo. B. Harvey, Lisbon. 

W. W. Hole, Salem. 

L. H. Brush, Salem. 

R. N. Chamberlain, E. Palestine. 
John B. Morgan, Leetonia. 
Reuben N. Hull, Salineville. 
John S. McNutt, Lisbon. 


ALTERNATES. 

Frank Adams, Lisbon. 

N. B. Billingsley, Lisbon. 

Ed. A. King, Lisbon. 

Wm. Culp, Columbiana. 

D. VV. Crist, Moultrie. 

J. N. Hanley, East Liverpool.. 

W. L. Smith, East Liverpool. 

A. W. Thomas, East Liverpool.. 
C. F. Lease, Salem. 

VV. D. Turner, Salem. 

A. S. McCaskey, East Palestine.. 

S. S. Stewart, East Palestine. 

P. M. Ashford, Salineville. 

J. L. McDonald, Wellsville.. 


COSHOCTON COUNTY. 


DELEGATES. 

VV. M. Smith, Coshocton. 

P. P. DeHart, Coshocton. 

H. H. Gaskill, Warsaw. 
Thomas R. Retilley, Roscoe. 

T. P. Perkins, Cooperdale. 


ALTERNATES. 

G. A. Hay, Coshocton. 

James Glenn, Coshocton. 

D. R. Culbertson, W. Lafayette.. 
Hamilton Scott, Adams Mills. 

H. H. Wagoner, Mills Creek. 


CRAWFORD COUNTY. 


DELEGATES. 

George J. Dietrich, Galion. 
Jacob Babst, Crestline. 

J. B. Morgan, Bucyrus. 
John McMichaels, Bucyrus. 


ALTERNATES. 

W. J. Geer, Galion. 

W. G. Whitmore, Galion. 
Sherman Daugherty, Tiro_ 
Edw. Vollrath, Bucyrus. 




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CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 


delegates-at-large. alternates-at-large. 

Geo. Kinzie, 

Geo. W. Kinney, 

Russell Hart, 

Wm. J. Turner, 

C. L. Tyler, 

Fred C. Elmer. 


Myron T. Herrick, 
B. Mahler, 

R. S. Hubbard, 

J. B. Zerbe, 

Otto A. Schule, 

J. W. Stewart, 

P. J. Marquart, 

F. Billman, 

S. T. Everett, 

M. Gallon, 

J. G. Rising, 

A. L. Davis, 

P. VV. Ward, 

G. D. Benes, 

Dayton W. Glenn, 
Wm. R. Kissick, 

P. L. Hobbs, 

Chas. L. Potter, 

J. S. Campbell, 
James W. Holcomb, 
Francis J. Wing, 

A. A. Wenham, 
Chas. R. Morlay, 

A. E. Akins, 

J. P. Urban, 

H. W. Corning, 

F. W. Sleinacker, 
Chas. L. Pack, 

W. D. Gilkey, 

L. Louis Malm, 

Edw. Layton, 

Wm. Cain, 


delegates. 
Max Goodman, 

F. Bernhardy, 

J. E. Benson, 

W. G. Andrews, 
D. F. Reynolds, 
H. H. Burgess, 

P. W. Ditte, 

G. W. Stevenson, 
W. C. Brace, 

J. F. Clark, 

H. H. Nelson, 
David Armstrong, 
J. F. Patterson, 
Frank C. Manak, 
Wm. Baxter, 
James Fawsett, 

J. H. Bradner, 

J. G. Fischer. 

alternates. 
Wm. Downie, 
Wm. Neville, 

Wm. Schmaur, 

B. P. Pennington, 
H. W. Wolcott, 

S. C. Vessey, 

O. D. Brainard, 
W. Conkey, 

J. R. Edwards, 


S. F. McGrath, 

J. B. Ruhl, 

O. C. Ringle, 

Lee N. Purdy, 
Henry E. Lunte, 
Phil Korn, 

L.H. Bruggeman, 
O. J. Keyes, 

F. T. Kuedsley, 
Herman Webber, 
Calvin A. Judson,. 
R. L. Palmer, 

E. P. Wilmot, 

V. A. Taylor, 

T. S. Quayle, 

W. B. Uhl, 

W. S. Ashley, 


Chas. Brant, 

J. E. Latty, 

Thomas Roberts, 

H. G. Singerfeller, 
J. B. Chapek, 

Edw. B. Hudinger. 
J. A. Smith, 

C. Benhoff, 

Geo. B. Cowler, 


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NAMES OF DELEGATES AND ALTERNATES. 


Cuyahoga County— Continued. 


Lee McBride, 

W. R. Distro, 

C. P. Mathewson, 
F. Bruce, 

Geo. H. Billman, 
C. W. Collister, 
Geo. Rouse, 
Henry F. Walker, 


W. H. H. Gorman, 
P. Buckingham, 

M. Kerola, 

E. W. Poole, 

Frank S. Dubois, 
Grant Morgan, 
Martin Conners, 
Lee S. Cook, 


James Duncan, 
A. A. Jerome, 
H. S. Hunt, 

W. W. Bishop, 
C. W. Parker, 
C. M. Knight, 
W. O. Ashcraft, 
John Rylance. 


DARKE 

DELEGATES. 

F. T. Conkling, Greenville. 

A L. Jones, Greenville. 

Thomas G. Brawley, Greenville. 
Geo. A. Perkins, Greenville. 
Conrad Winterowd, Yorkshire. 
A. F. Little, Bradford. 

Roswell Speelman, Ansonia. 

L. H. Smith, Arcanum. 


COUNTY. 

ALTERNATES. 

John Devor, Greenville. 

W. W. Teegarden, Greenville. 
J. P. Duffey, Greenville. 

Job Gosley, North Star. 

Jas. Reser, Versailles. 

Chas. Clemens, Long. 

F. M. Whitaker, Lightsville. 
Aaron Wright, Painter Creek. 


DEFIANCE COUNTY. 


DELEGATES. 

F. L. Hay, Defiance. 

G. W. Helpman, Defiance. 
Jno. Blosser, Hicksville. 

J. J. Crane, Evansport. 


ALTERNATES. 

W. H. McClintock, Defiance. 
V. S. Haller, Farmer. 

U. S. Blue, Ayersville. 

T. C. Elliott, Defiance. 


DELAWARE COUNTY. 


DELEGATES. 

Hon. A. Lybrand, Delaware. 
Otis H. Kimball, Sunbury. 

N. F. Overturf, Delaware. 
Evan I. Jones, Radnor. 

W. O. Lupton, Delaware. 

Ed Lindner, Hyattsville. 

N. M. Miller, Delaware. 


ALTERNATES. 

C. H. Adams, Delaware. 
E. G. Lybrand, Delaware. 
P. P. Ingalls, Westerville. 
Wellington Slack, Ashley. 
J. D. Singleton, Delaware. 
W. A. Greiner, Delaware. 
J. A. Wilson, Sunbury. 





NAMES OF DELEGATES AND ALTERNATES. 

ERIE COUNTY. 

DELEGATES. 

James R. Mellville, Sandusky. 

F. P. Zollinger, Sandusky. 

E. B. King, Sandusky. 

Frank Dimon, Milan. 

M. J. Love, Bloomingville. 

Jno. Ray, Huron. 

Wm. Widner, Soldiers’ Home. 

David Ross, Soldiers’ Home. 


FAIRFIELD COUNTY. 


DELEGATES. 

A. I. Vorys, Lancaster. 

L. G. Silbaugh, Lancaster. 

F. L. Morris, Royalton. 

F. M. Morath, Pickerington. 
W. M. Wykoff, New Salem. 
Samuel Fenstermaker, Basil. 


ALTERNATES. 

Isaac Groff, Lancaster. 

C. M. L. Wiseman, Lancaster. 
M. M. Miesse, Lancaster. 
Elmer Stewart, Pleasantville. 
Peter Crist, Greencastle. 

J. Frank Thompson, Bremen. 


FAYETTE COUNTY. 

DELEGATES. ALTERNATES. 

D. I. Worthington, Wash. C. H. C. E. Page, Washington C. H.. 
T. W. Marchant, W’shingt’n C. H. James McLean, Jr., New Holland.. 
Nye Gregg, Washington C. H. James Weaver, New Holland. 
Reuben Rankin, Parrott. James E. Haines, Moons. 

W. E. Cook, Cook. 


FRANKLIN COUNTY. 

DELEGATES. 

Jacob Sherman, Probate Court, Columbus. 
Wm Trautman, Livingston Ave. & 6th St. 
F. McCafferty, 331 So. Washington Ave. 
George Monnett, 405 The Wyandotte. 
Harry S. Jones, 43 E. Main St. 




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NAMES OF DELEGATES AND ALTERNATES. 


Franklin County —Continued. 

J. U. Barnhill, 248 E. State St. 

E. N. Huggins, Kink Building. 

Henry A. Williams, Spahr Building. 

Isaiah Smith, 1306 Mann St. 

Geo. W. Sinks, Deshler National Bank. 

S. O. Giffin, Leonard and St. Clair Ave. 

F. F. D. Albery, Board of Trade. 

John J. Pugh, City Library. 

Gilbert H. Stewart, The Wyandotte. 

Willis G. Bowland, Bowland, Bell & Martins. 

James T. Aughenbaugh, 517 West State St. 

Albert Richenbacher, Clerk of Police Court. 

Karl T. Webber, Board of Trade. 

Frank M. Squires, University and Kerr Sts. 

J. E. Sater, Hinman-Beatty Building. 

J. T. Lindsay, High and University Sts. 

Gilbert R. Kittle, 86 E. First Ave. 

M. A. Bridge, Dairy and Food Commissioner’s Office. 
C. M. Kinnaird, 56 King Ave. 

W. T. Cope, Commercial National Bank. 

Geo. S. Marshall, Hayden Block. 

Scott Rochelle, Black Lick. 

O. D. Harris, Groveport. 

John McLish, Reeses. 

B. F. Starr, Gahanna. 

W. L. Pinkerton, Galloway. 

W. F. Griswold, Worthington. 

Joseph B. Davis, Dublin. 

Ritson Barbee, Grove City. 

ALTERNATES. 

Carl Braum, 188 Reinhart Ave., Columbus. 

Reedy McDonald, 43 Baker Alley. 

A. R. Geist, 720 Oakland Ave. 

Frank Butts, 510 Elmwood Ave. 

H. L. Sager, 266 S. Third St. 

C. D. Beardsley, Board of Trade. 

W. H. Ball, Probate Court. 



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Franklin County —Continued. 

A. H. Johnson, Board of Trade Bldg. 
Harrison Cooley, 296 Champion Ave. 

Arch Hammond, 37 N. 20th St. 

Carl N. Bancroft, 27 N. 20th St. 

Ed Jenkins, 379 Kellogg Ave. 

Ed A. Pryce, 550 Marion St. 

Hartsell Caldwell, State Law Library. 

John Davies, 19 S. Front St. 

Wm. Perkins, 551 W. Broad St. 

Leonard Kipp, Union and Central Ave. 

W. E. Edminston, 957 W. Broad St. 

Geo. Bell, 286 Neil Ave. 

Chas. A. Stribling, 140 Buttles Ave. 

Thomas E. Humphreys, 167 W. Goodale St. 
L. M. Kissinger, 69 E. Second Ave. 

G. G. Perry, W. Seventh. 

J. H. Dyer, Spahr Building. 

J. F. Fergus, Park Hotel Bldg. 

Barton Griffith, Spahr Building. 

H. T. Sibel, Westerville. 

J. F. Medbery, County Infirmary. 

Frank S. Miller, Columbus. 

John McClay, Park Mills. 

J. M. Fuson, Worthington. 

Daniel S. Latham, Dublin. 

George W. Deyo, Harrisburg. 


FULTON COUNTY. 


DELEGATES. 


ALTERNATES. 


J. M. Longnecker, Delta. 
A. Q. Price, Swanton. 


George Walters, Tedrow. 
James S. Brailey, Wauseon. 
H. S. Bassett, Wauseon. 


A. P. Biddle, Wauseon. 
Wm. Geyser, Swanton. 
N. S. Blue, Pettisville. 
R. H. Dunbar, Delta. 


Jas. K. Campbell, Wauseon. 


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NAMES OF DELEGATES AND ALTERNATES. 


GALLIA COUNTY. 

DELEGATES. 

C. D. Maxon, Gallipolis. 

H. C. Johnson, Gallipolis. 

A. E. Boatman, Kyger. 

C. M. Alexander, Gallipolis. 

R. J. Mauck, Gallipolis. 

T. J. McDaniels, Addison. 

J. T. Hanson, Gallipolis. 

S. H. Eagle, Gallipolis. 

F. F. Thorniley, Raccoon Island. 
W. S. Matthews. 

I. F. Chapman, Gallipolis. 

E. W. Parker, Gallipolis. 


GEAUGA COUNTY. 


DELEGATES. 

Geo. H. Ford, Burton. 

E. W. Coe, Welchfield. 
Richard King, Chardon. 

S. D. Hollenbeck, Chardon. 


ALTERNATES. 

D. W. Bidlake. 

J. J. Rose. 

John Browning. 

Warren Ballard. 


GREENE COUNTY. 


DELEGATES. 

Jesse Taylor, Jamestown. 

C. M. Ridgeway, Cedarville. 
H. E. Schmidt, Xenia. 

C. F. Cretors, Xenia. 

John Wing, Yellow Springs. 

J. O. McCormick, Xenia. 

J. F. Shoemaker, Goes. 

J. T. Hibble, Fairfield. 


ALTERNATES. 

D. H. Nichols, Xenia. 

L. Steinfels, Xenia. 

H. C. Long, New Jasper. 
Harvey Davis, Jamestown. 
Jacob Stewart, Alpha. 
James McClure, Bellbrook. 
J. A. Mirces. 

Wm. Rogers, Xenia. 




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GUERNSEY COUNTY. 


DELEGATES. 

J. E. McClelland, Cumberland. 
J. H. Mackey, Cambridge. 

Jack Richards, Cambridge. 
Chas. W. Bond, Londonderry. 
G. H. Stout, Middlebourne. 

. L. Douglass, Quaker City. 

Joe Hazlett, Cambridge. 


ALTERNATES. 

F. W. Arnold, Cambridge. 

Allen H. Patterson, Cambridge, 
N. E. Gallup, Cambridge. 

Brown McBride, Cambridge. 
David Williams, Pleasant City. 
Dr. Austin, Byesville. 

John Hartup, Lawrenceville. 


HAMILTON COUNTY. 

DELEGATES 

Ward. Ward. 


i—Nicholas Longworth, Cin’ti. 
i — John Breen, “ 

1— James M. Sprague, “ 

2— George D. Harper, “ 

2—Peter Whitlow, “ 

2 —Joseph A. Miller, “ 

2 — George W. Tibbies, “ 

3 — E. V. Brookfield, 

4— Vivian J. Fagin, “ 

4— Charles F. Williams, “ 

5 —-James B. Swing, “ 

5— Wade Cushing, “ 

6— Charles Henson, 

7— Julius H. Bauer, “ 

7— Emile Werk, 

8— Eugene V. Lewis, 

9— Rud K. Hynicka, “ 

9—Charles B. Arnold, “ 

10—Louis Kruckemeyer, “ 

10—George Hummel, 

10— Simon Krug, 

11 — August Herrmann, “ 

11 —Phil Eckenroth, 

t 1—Julius C. Frei, 

12— Otto J. Renner, 


22— Gustave Angne, Cin’ti. 
22 — Edward S. Kenney, “ 

23— Louis Werner, “ 

23—William Bodemer, “ 

23— Henry Bremfoerder “ 

24 — Charles S. Holder, “ 

24— Fred Bader, “ 

24— H. Wm. Hamann, “ 

25— M. A. McGuire, “ 

25—Wash. Irwin, “ 

2 5 — William Woehrlin, “ 

26— Joseph B. Kelley, “ 

26—Henry Korb, “ 

26— Henry M. Ziegler, “ 

2 7 — John C. Gallagher, “ 

27— John V. Campbell, “ 

28— Fred H. Ballman, 

28—John Sperry, 

28— Clark B. Montgomery “ 

29— William Schepers, “ 

29— Salmon Jones, “ 

30— William F. Chambers “ 

30— John Paul, “ 

31— George B. Cox, 

31—Edw. F. Weil, “ 



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NAMES OF DELEGATES AND ALTERNATES. 


Hamilton County Delegates —Continued. 


Ward. 

t 2—Louis H. Meier, Cin’ti. 

12— Fred Dreihs, “ 

13— Adolph Geiger, “ 

13— John Maegly, “ 

14— M. Burgoyne, “ 

14— Fred Maag, “ 

15— William A. Gregg, “ 

15— Morris Bauer, “ 

16— Scott Bonham, “ 

16— Joseph F. Kushman, “ 

17— George W. Zapf, “ 

17— Eugene Lavelle, “ 

18— Max C. Anderson, “ 

18— Charles Bathgate, “ 

19— Frank Cook, “ 

20 — August Kirbert, “ 

20— Charles T. Hayman, “ 

21— Edward Bartsche, “ 

altei 

John Schroth, Cin’ti. 

Geo. Crawford, “ 

C. Vallandingham, “ 

M. Mullen, “ 

Jos. Adler, “ 

Wm. Copeland, lt 

H. M. Hoffheimer, “ 

W. L. Dickson, “ 

D. E. McGuire, “ 

Jos. L. Gaul, “ 

Chas. J. Hunt, “ 

L. Kraft, 

C. Herrmann, li 


Ward. 

31—Morris L. Bettman, Cin’ti. 
Alfred R. Burnett, “ 
Wilber Drake, “ 

W. C. Rogers, “ 

G. F. Osier, “ 

Sam T. Harris, “ 

Henry Busching, ** 
Jacob Krollman, “ 
William Anthony, 

Peter W. Durr, “ 

William C. Hayden, “ 
Walter M. Yeatmin, “ 
Charles T. Dumont, “ 

C. W. Caine, “ 

C. C. Richardson, “ 
Harry D. Blackburn, “ 
Charles Cooper, “ 
Emil Guth, “ 


C. E. Schell, Cin’ti. 

Jacob Mehley, “ 

R. M. Moore, “ 

C. B. Wing, 

Fred Bader, “ 

Geo. Wabnitz, “ 

L. Kushman, “ 

M. Burgheim, “ 

Julius Greyer, “ 

A. Longworth, “ 

A. J. DeHart, il 

F. T. Foster, “ 



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HANCOCK COUNTY. 


DELEGATES. 

John W. Bly, Findlay. 

S. F. DeWolfe, Findlay. 

John J. Wetzel, Findlay. 

J. B. Heimhofer, Findlay. 

N. L. McLaughlan, Findlay. 
Geo. 1 ). Mitchell, Devveyville. 
Levi Falk, Mt. Cory. 

J. D. Hanna. 

C. R. Swank, Bluffton, Allen Co. 
R. W. Hale, Fostoria. 


ALTERNATES. 
Henry Batch. 

J. C. Firmin. 

W. H. Gray. 

M. M. Carothers. 

J. E. Moses. 

Jasper Dukes. 

C. P. Welty. 

W. G. Grable. 

C. E. Morehead. 

L. H. Jones. 


HARDIN COUNTY. 


DELEGATES. 

J. A. Kuert, Kenton. 

W. A. Belt, Kenton. 

S. H. Lehr, Ada. 

S. P. Exline, Ada. 

Roy Cessna, Kenton. 

H. E. Dickinson, Mt. Victory. 
W. A. Swimly, Forest. 

H. L. Williams, Jumbo. 


HARRISON COUNTY. 


DELEGATES. 

D. A. Hollingsworth, Cadiz. 

J. H. Bead, Scio. 

D. P. Host, Cadiz. 

J. C. Glover, Cadiz. 

Geo. M. Patton, New Athens. 
James A. McKean, Bowerston. 


ALTERNATES. 

W. P. Guther, Means. 

G. W. Glover, Cadiz. 

N. L. Havenfreter, Cadiz. 

E. B. Kirby, Cadiz. 

W. A. Forsythe, New Athens. 
J. B. Beadle, Germano. 


HENRY COUNTY. 


DELEGATES. 

F. D. Prentiss, Napoleon. 
Wm. Barhite, Hamlin. 

J. W. Wright, Texas. 
Rufus Hill, Deshler. 






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NAMES OF DELEGATES AND ALTERNATES. 


HIGHLAND COUNTY. 


DELEGATES. 

D. Q. Morrow, Hillsboro. 

T. M. Watts, Carmel. 

S. N. Patton, Hillsboro. 

C. L. Foster, Greenfield. 

I. Froth, Lynchburgh. 

John J. Dewey, Leesburgh. 

Dan H. Vanwinkle, Newmarket, 


ALTERNATES. 

W. H. Walker, Hillsboro. 
E. W. Allen. 

W. S. Haigh, Bell. 

J. G. Jolly, Hillsboro. 
Joseph Karns, Petersburg!}.. 
G. E. Roush, Russell. 

O. K. Harper, Berryville. 


HOCKING COUNTY. 

DELEGATES. 

J. W. Jones, Logan. 

H. G. Campbell, Logan. 

W. S. Stone, Logan. 

Thomas Brown, Sand Run. 

J. M. Dannison, Blatchford. 
J. F. White, Logan. 

H. B. Troxell, Rock Bridge. 


HOLMES COUNTY. 


DELEGATES. 

J. L. Jones, Glenmont. 
Leonard Rottman, Benton. 


ALTERNATES. 

Wm. McClose, Millersburg. 
Wm. Duncan, Killbuck. 


HURON COUNTY. 


DELEGATES. 

G. T. Thomas, Norwalk. 

L. C. Laylin, Norwalk. 

H. P. Steretz, Monroeville. 

E. A. Winebar, New London. 
W. T. Francis, Chicago, O. 

S. M. Wolf, Bellevue. 

A. G. Felton, Havana. 

A. G. Bodley, Plymouth. 


ALTERNATES. 

J. F. Laning, Norwalk. 

A. M. Beattie, Norwalk. 

J. M. Harr, Norwalk. 

A. C. Williams, Monroeville. 
S. H. Todd, Wakeman. 

B. P. Foster, Norwalk. 

C. H. Gallup, Norwalk. 

S. S. Hawkins, Townsend. 





NAMES OF DELEGATES AND ALTERNATES. 


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JACKSON COUNTY. 


DELEGATES. 

Stephen Morgan, Oak Hill. 

O. B. Gould, Wellston. 

P. H. Bunn, Wellston. 

I. A. Sternberger, Jackson. 
Tom Moore, Jackson. 

Chas. K Davis, Glen Roy. 
Marion Kessinger, Coalton. 


ALTERNATES. 

E. J. Jones, Oak Hill. 

Lot Davis, Jackson. 

W. R. Evans, Jackson. 

W. R. Mellvin, Wellston. 

O. B. Randall, Leo. 

John E. Morgan, Glen Roy. 
J. H. McKittrick, Jackson. 


JEFFERSON COUNTY. 

DELEGATES. ALTERNATES. 


R. G. Richards, Steubenville. 

J. J. Gill, Steubenville. 

Chas. D. Simeral, Bloomingdale. 
W. H. McClinton, Steubenville. 
J. Dunbar, Steubenville. 

Wm. D. Carroll, Annapolis. 
John M. Cook, Steubenville. 

J. J. Crawford, Toronto. 

F. C. Updegraff, Mt. Pleasant. 


John S. Means, Steubenville. 
Benj. Shane, Shane. 

Winfield Scott, Steubenville. 
Ambrose Kent, Steubenville. 
Samuel B. Taylor, Toronto. 

E. E. Flrskine, Steubenville. 

R. A. Bryant, Mingo. 

J. E. Paisley, .Irondale. 
Robert Laughlin, Steubenville. 
John D. Irwince, Steubenville. 
J. G. Lange, Steubenville. 

D. C. Peck, Rush Run. 


KNOX COUNTY. 

DELEGATES. 

W. C. Cooper, Mt. Vernon. 

W. O. Phillips, Centerburg. 

A. J. Workman, Danville. 

E. F. Hamilton, Hunts Station. 
J. L. Brinning, Mt. Vernon. 
Park Worley, Mt. Vernon. 
Judson Vincent, Mt. Vernon. 




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NAMES OF DELEGATES AND ALTERNATES. 


LAKE COUNTY. 


DELEGATES. 

J. A. Beidler, Willoughby. 

H. P. Bosworth, Painesville. 

C. H. Quail, Madison. 

A. P. Boyd, Painesville. 

A. G. Reynolds, Painesville. 


ALTERNATES. 

Sultan St. John, Madison. 

B. F. Kerr, West Mentor. 

J. C. Ward, Painesville. 

Geo. Morse, South Kirkland. 
Frank Salkeld, Perry. 


LAWRENCE COUNTY. 


DELEGATES. 

A. R. Johnson, Ironton. 
Chas. Peters, Ironton. 

J. M. Hall, Ironton. 

H. A. Marting, Ironton. 

S. B. Steece, Ironton. 

R. B. Miller, Ironton. 

T. G. Brown, Ironton. 


ALTERNATES. 

J. W. McConnell, Ironton. 
W. C. Bryant, Ironton. 

J. M. Wiseman, Ironton. 
H. L. Amos, Ironton. 

C. W. Reynolds, Ironton. 
John Peters, Jr., Ironton. 
C. H. Ketter, Ironton. 


LICKING 

DELEGATES. 

Joseph Atkinson, Pataskala. 

M. F. Meade, Pataskala. 

Wm. Thrall, Croton. 

Boyd Dunlap, Homer. 

J. W. Little, Fallsburg. 

Harry. Hoover, Newark. 

Walter A.. Irvine, Newark. 

John A. Chilcote, Newark. 
Arthur Wyeth, Highwater. 

LOGAN 

DELEGATES. 

W. S. Plum, Bellefontaine. 

W. C. Huston, Bellefontaine. 
Wm. Ramsey, Bell Center. 

H. A. Hill, West . Liberty. 

W. W. Roach, Bellefontaine. 

F. E. Milligan, East Liberty. 

D. E. Strayer, De Graff. 


COUNTY. 

ALTERNATES. 

H. D. Murphy, Newark. 

E. S. Miller, Nevark. 

L. H. Inschro, Newark. 

C. W. Kent, Newark. 

O. A. Pierson, Jersey. 

J. H. Rodgers, Hanover. 
Joshua Stark, Granville. 

S. D. Lyons, Vannatta. 

G. M. Koontz, Norman. 

COUNTY. 

ALTERNATES. 

Newton Archer, Bell Center. 
Robert Gowns, Bellefontaine. 
W. H. Kellison, Quincy. 

P. M. Kellar, West Mansfield. 
Orin Outland, Pickertown. 
Geo. Brugler, Ridgeway. 
Dennis Denny, Bellefontaine. 





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LORAIN COUNTY. 

DELEGATES. 

D. C. Baldwin, Elyria. 

L. B. Fauver, Elyria. 

E. G. Johnson, Elyria. 

E. M. Pierce, Lorain. 

J. B. Hoge, Lorain. 

B. E. Boice, Lorain. 

S. K. Warner, Wellington. 

E. C. Branson, Wellington. 

F. W. Briggs, Fields. 

E. C. Foster, North x\mherst. 
John W. Steele, Oberlin. 
Chas. T. Whitney, Oberlin. 


LUCAS COUNTY. 

DELEGATES. 


W. T. Huntsman, Toledo, 
George B. Eckhart, 

E. W. Purrett, 

J. C. Bonner, 

Geo. E. Ryan, 

Thomas R. Cook, 

John P. Weed, 

N. Jacobson, 

Wm. S. Walker, 

Chas. A. Cottrell, 

Noah H. Swayne, 

Perry W. Waite, 

R. A. Bartley, 

C. C. Jenkins, 

W. H. Currier, 

John S. Kountz, 

Wm. Ahrendt, 

Geo. P. Metzger, 

Wm. T. Koffman, 


care city auditor. 

27 N. Erie St. 

514 Bush St. 

728 Superior St. 

402 Front St. 

care water works department, 
care Weed, Colburn & Co. 
517 State St. 

1152 Dorr St. 
care county recorder. 

52 Produce exchange. 

2002 Jefferson St. 

618 Summit St. 

Cloverleaf Route G. P. A. 
1015 Jefferson St. 

12 Produce exchange. 

604 Monroe. 

524 North R. Ave. 

552 Walbridge Ave. 









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NAMES OF DELEGATES AND ALTERNATES. 


Lucas County Delegates—C ontinued. 

D. E. Jefferson, Toledo 1837 Air Line Ave. 

O. M. Boyer, “ County commissioner. 

Ernest Torgler, North Toledo. 

George Miller, Toledo, Station A. 

Henry Driver, Richards. 

ALTERNATES. 

Richard Reeves, Toledo, 724 Ash St. 


John Kro’ndorf, 

John R. Balsmyer, ‘ 

N. C. Ball, 

Thomas R. Wickendon, ‘ 

E. B. Chidester, ‘ 

Jacob Romeis, ‘ 

James Melvin, 

S. W. Lott, 

Abner O. Perry, 

Frank I. King, 

Harvey Scribner, ‘ 

George O. Blake, 

Frank D. Suydam, ‘ 

F. B. Stevens, ‘ 

N. I. Wilcox, 

Louis Nohl, ‘ 

Louis E. Krieger, 

Wm. A. Liebke, ‘ 

C. A. Willard, 

W. W. Farnsworth, Waterville. 
Albert Martin, West Toledo 
L. B. Bailey, Curtice. 

Timothy Adams, Sylvania. 


care Water works department. 
209 Madison St. 

903 Huron. 

1029 Spitzer building. 

1307 Oak St. 

2218 Fulton St. 

225 Summit St. 

312 Valentine St. 

1135 Norwood Ave. 

19 Produce exchange. 

313 Valentine. 

927 Spitzer building, 
care Milburn Wagon Co. 

1002 Washington St. 
care N. I. Wilcox Co. 

614 Hamilton St. 

347 South St. 

333 Chapin St. 

2062 Broadway. 


MADISON COUNTY. 

DELEGATES. 

Thomas B. Wilson, London. 
JohnT. Vent, London. 

R. H. McCloud, London. 

W. S. Robison, Mt. Sterling. 
W. D. Chenoweth, Big Plain. 
C. W. Jones, West Jefferson. 



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MAHONING COUNTY. 


DELEGATES. 

R. Montgomery, Youngstown. 

L. W. King, Youngstown. 

J. H. Ruhlman, Youngstown. 
Benj. Jenkins, Youngstown. 

M. A. Morris, Youngstown. 

J. C. Norris, Youngstown. 
Geo. E. Rose, Youngstown. 

B. P. Baldwin, Newton Falls. 
R. L. Templin, Calla. 

Philip Hagan, Youngstown. 

W. R. Stewart, Youngstown. 
M. S. Atkinson, Damascus. 


ALTERNATES. 

George L. Fordyce, Youngstown. 
Wick Taylor, Youngstown. 

J. Craig Smith, Youngstown. 
James Price, Youngstown. 

W. S. Anderson, Youngstown. 
Walter Canfield, Youngstown. 

L. C. Ohl, Youngstown. 

C. B. Wick, Youngstown. 
Thomas E. Davey, Youngstown. 
H. G. Bye, Youngstown. 

J. J. McNally, Youngstown. 

R. B. Murray, Youngstown. 


MARION COUNTY 


DELEGATES. 

Grant E. Mouser, Marion. 
Frank E. Coon, Marion. 

J. F. McNeal, Marion. 
Harry N. Quigley, Marion. 
W. L. Morral, De Cliff. 


ALTERNATES. 

M. B. Dickerson, Marion. 
Geo. E. Salmon, Marion. 
J. W. Jones, Prospect. 

C. E. Warwick, Caledonia. 
J. H. Leonard, Larue. 


MEDINA COUNTY. 


DELEGATES. 

F. O. Phillips, Medina. 

N. P. Nichols, Medina. 
James Hower, Lodi. 

C. V. Mattison, Seville. 

N. S. Everhard, Wadsworth. 
Frank Mills, Wadsworth. 


ALTERNATES. 
Amos Gardner, York. 

C. D. Riley, Hinckley. 

C. D. Wightman, Medina. 
W. H. Albro, Medina. 

W. B. Croft, Medina. 

Ben Wells, Medina. 


MEIGS COUNTY. 


J. L. Carpenter, 
J. O. Clark, 

W. H. Huntley, 


DELEGATES. 
A. V. Vorhees, 

J. W. Philton, 

M. E. Rathburn, 


J. N. Haytnan, 
W. N. Hanlin. 





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NAMES OF DELEGATES AND ALTERNATES. 


MERCER COUNTY. 


DELEGATES. 

E. A. Yocum, Mendon. 
W. F. Pixler, Rockford. 
Eli Bryson, Celina. 


ALTERNATES. 

Chas. Scheid, Ft. Recovery. 
Chas. Deitrick, Celina. 
Chas. W. Halfhill, Mercer. 


MIAMI COUNTY. 


DELEGATES. 

McPherson Brown, Piqua. 

Wm. C. Johnson, Piqua. 

Raper Delaney, Piqua. 

Frank Carbrey, Piqua. 

Joseph Ruhl, Covington. 

S. N. Vausman, Pleasant Hill. 
Laban Jenks, Laura. 

J. W. Means, Troy. 

E. S. Williams, Troy. 

U. J. Favorite, Tippecanoe. 


ALTERNATES. 

David Arnold, Bradford. 

Van S. Heaton, Alcony. 

Daniel Spencer, Piqua. 

E. M. Wilvee, Piqua. 

Thomas C. Harbaugh, Caston. 
Henry Kessler, Kessler. 

M. E. Baird, Troy. 

W. J. Peters, Troy. 

Byron Weldy, South Charleston 
H. J. Ritter, Tippecanoe City. 


MONROE COUNTY. 

DELEGATES. ALTERNATES. 

FI. R. Tanner, Miltonsburg. H. R. Ullmann, Stafford. 
Jacob McVey, Stafford. Louis F. Urpman, Clarington. 

Thomas D. Rouse, Woodsfield. O. M. Greenbank, Woodsfield. 


MONTGOMERY COUNTY. 

DELEGATES. 

Daniel Coxson, Dayton, Valley St. 

C. H. Bosler, Dayton. 

Junius Choen, Soldiers Home. 

C. W. Dustin, Dayton. 

J. E. Feight, Dayton, Rowe St. 

R. R. Knowles, Dayton, Insane Asylum. 
E. P. Mathews, Dayton. 

C. A. Craighead, Dayton. 

Chas. Kulmer, Dayton. 





NAMES OF DELEGATES AND ALTERNATES. IO/ 

Montgomery County Delegates—C ontinued. 

C. A. Haines, Centerville. 

J. B. Teehan, Dayton, South Ludlow St. 

D. M. Martin, Dayton. 

Mark Slater, Dayton, McIntyre building. 

O. E. Davidson, Dayton, Brown Soap Works. 

M. J. Schwab, Dayton, Philips block. 

Fred Slenker, Sulphur Grove P. O. 

C. E. Goodrich, Soldiers Home. 

D. B. Corwin, Soldiers Home. 

D. D. Bickman, Soldiers Home. 

John Kirchner, Soldiers Home, 

O. B. Brown, Soldiers Home. 

A. W. Kumler, Soldiers Home. 

Daniel Bush, Soldiers Home. 

H. W. Kaiser, Soldiers Home. 

J. E. Lowes, Soldiers Home. 

C. W. Shaeffer, Soldiers Home. 

O. I. Robbins, Soldiers Home. 

B. F. Cotrel, Dayton, 514 S. Jefferson St. 


MORGAN COUNTY. 


DELEGATES. 

T. J. Masterson, McCon’lsville. 
Alex Mclntire, Neelyville. 
Jasper Barrell, Malta. 

B. F. Dutton, Chester Hill. 
Carlos Newberry, Stockport. 


ALTERNATES. 

Louis Tompkins, Pennsville. 
Howard Strong, Durant. 

J. E. Phelps, Moscow Mills. 
D. C. Ray, Ringgold. 

D. W. Lawrence, Meigs. 


MORROW COUNTY. 

DELEGATES. 

H. S. Mooney, Cardington. 

C. D. Smiley, Mt. Gilead. 

J. E. Dalrymple, Chesterville. 

F. H. Miller, St. James. 

H. S. Adams, Bennington. 




NAMES OF DELEGATES AND ALTERNATES. 


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MUSKINGUM COUNTY. 


DELEGATES. 

H. C. VanVoorhis, Zanesville. 
John Hoge, Zanesville. 

R. L. Holland, Zanesville. 
Joseph Shaw, Zanesville. 

George K. Browning, Zanesville. 
H. L. Grainer, Zanesville. 

J. B. Wilson, Zanesville. 

T. N. Sowers, Roseville. 

. R. Hosick, Adamsville. 
Wesley Dutro, Blue Rock. 

N. T. Gant, Zanesville. 

F. M. Fleming, Frazeysburg. 

T. F. Gault, New Concord. 


ALTERNATES. 

F. C. Dietz, Zanesville. 

J. K. Rendell, Zanesville. 
Robt. A. Butler, Zanesville. 
F. H. King, Zanesville. 

W. H. Bolden, Zanesville. 
Jesse Coultrap, Zanesville. 

J. H. Frazier, Frazeysburg. 

J. B. Tanner, Zanesville. 

Geo. W. Trot man, Otsego. 
Willis Cox, Freeland. 

H. C. Smith, Dresden. 

V. B. Thompson, Zanesville. 
Ham McFarland, White Cotta 


NOBLE COUNTY. 


DELEGATES. 

F. M. Martin, Caldwell. 

G. W. Taylor, Columbus. 

J. J. Allison, Cumberland. 
G. W. McElfresh, Caldwell 
R. F. Brown, Dexter City. 


ALTERNATES. 

M. B. Archer, Caldwell. 

J. S. Round, Summerfield. 
W. J. Johnson, Caldwell. 

J. Beckley, Sharon. 

David Friedman, Caldwell. 


OTTAWA COUNTY. 

DELEGATES. 

Emory Thierwechter, Oak Harbor. 
J. C. Netsch, Elmore. 

Wm. Kelly, Port Clinton. 


PAULDING COUNTY 


DELEGATES. 

J. R. Ross, Paulding. 

S. A. Rennollett. 

H. K. Gant, Payne. 

James Evans, Scott. 

N. B. Turner, Grover Hill. 
D. W. Curtiss, Antwerp. 


ALTERNATES. 

E. E. Morris. 

W. H. Patterson, Melrose, 
D. C. Gorell, Payne. 

J. H. Chester, Knoxdale. 
R. A. Murphy, Mandale. 
Chas. Dickinson. 








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PERRY COUNTY. 

DELEGATES. 

P. W. Smith, Glenford. 

Geo. H. Safford, Somerset. 

J. C. Stolzenbach, Junction City. 
Levi H. Kennedy, New Lexington, 
H. H. Betts, Corning. 

C. H. Ryland, Roseville. 

Frank A. Kelly, New Lexington. 


PICKAWAY COUNTY. 


DELEGATES. 

F. L. Fickhardt, Circleville 
H. B. Weaver, Circleville. 

C. S. Hunsicker, Woodlyn. 
Willis Jones, Derby. 

Henry T. Cooley, New Howl 


ALTERNATES. 

M. B. Radcliff, Circleville. 

G. A. Clellan, Kinderhook. 

G. W. Kerns, Nebraska. 

Levi Imler, Stringtown. 

O. B. Hornbeck, Williamsport. 


PIKE COUNTY. 


DELEGATES. 

'O. C. Andree. 

Chas. Barnes. 

C. G. Nessler. 

E. E. Silcott. 


ALTERNATES. 

W. B. Lee. 

Newt. Foster. 

W. H. Bailey. 

D. Todd. 


PORTAGE COUNTY. 


DELEGATES. 

J. C. Beatty, Ravenna. 

O. P. Sperra, Ravenna. 

S. P. Wolcott, Kent. 

H. T. Sheldon, Windham. 
H. L. Hine, Mantua. 

Geo. H. Colton, Hiram. 


ALTERNATES. 

W. S. Kent, Kent. 

W. S. Krake, Ravenna. 
James Anderson, Edinburg, 
C. M. Davis, Kent. 

W. W. Reed, Kent. 

Geo. Hedger, Nelson. 




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NAMES OF DELEGATES AND ALTERNATES. 


PREBLE COUNTY. 


DELEGATES. 

Oscar Sheppard, W. Alexandria. 
Elam Fisher, Eaton. 

R. E. Morrow, West Florence. 

S. E. Morton, Camden. 

•Grant Sheller, Lewisburg. 

I. K. Neal, Eaton. 


ALTERNATES. 

M. K. Hensel, Eaton. 

U. S. Loofborough, Gratis. 

H. F. Lorimer, Fair Haven. 

F. M. Davison, West Manchester. 
John Campbell, West Alexandria. 
S. A. Brower, Sugar Valley. 


PUTNAM COUNTY. 

DELEGATES. ALTERNATES. 

G. H. Jones, Columbus Grove. O. W. Compton, Gilboa. 

John Crow, Kieferville. B. B. Brumley, Leipsic. 

Jacob Werner, Leipsic. E. K. Sheets, Columbus Grove. 

N. E. Mathews, Ottawa. J. C. Whitney, Hartsburg. 


DELEGATES. 

W. S Kerr, Mansfield. 

Geo. M. Skiles, Shelby. 

A. B. Beverstock, Lexington. 
Geo. Huffman, Plymouth. 

S. S. Hackedorn, Ontario. 

H. H. Beelman, Mansfield. 

A. R. Hale, Mansfield. 

E. J. Gilbert, Mansfield. 

ROSS 

DELEGATES. 

James N. Thomas, Chillicothe. 
Alex Renick, Chillicothe. 

D. M. Massie, Chillicothe. 

F. C. Arbenz, Chillicothe. 
Chas. R. Doll, Chillicothe. 
Dennis Sullivan, Chillicothe. 
W. M. Stimson, Lyndon. 
James R. Motter, Gillespievilh 
Byron Lutz, Yellow Bud. 

Wm. C. Newell, Bainbridge. 


rD COUNTY. 

ALTERNATES. 
Frank Cook, Mansfield. 
Wm. E. Ford, Mansfield. 

A 1 Moore, Shelby. 

H. L. Bowers, Mansfield. 
Thomas A. Parry, Lucas. 
H. P. Sewell, Mansfield. 

C. H. Keating, Mansfield. 
P. C. Mitchell, Mansfield. 

COUNTY. 

ALTERNATES. 

W. S. Metcalf. 

F. O. Miller. 

James R. Rittenour. 

Robert Swinehart. 

John C. Foster. 

Marcus Boggs, Chillicothe. 
J. M. May. 

. H. C. Randolph. 

H. G. Howard. 






NAMES OF DELEGATES AND ALTERNATES. 


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SANDUSKY COUNTY. 

DELEGATES. 

J. G. Brugger, Bellevue. 

J. D. Fintch, Clyde. 

A. F. Price, Fremont. 

J. C. Carr, Fremont. 

J. J. Brim, Woodville. 

J. N. Stackhouse, Bettsville. 


SCIOTO COUNTY. 


DELEGATES. 

Philo S. Clark, Portsmouth. 
James T. Tracy, Portsmouth. 
Noah J. Dever, Portsmouth. 

A. F. McCormick, Portsmouth. 
Wells A. Teachnor, Sciotov.ille. 
Thomas T. Yeager, Portsmouth. 
Frank B. Finney, Portsmouth. 
Chas. E. Hard, Portsmouth. 


ALTERNATES. 

C. J. Moulton, Lucasville. 
James Russell, Lucasville. 

John B. Tracy, Portsmouth. 

H. S. Grimes, Portsmouth. 
Henry Hall, Portsmouth. 

Wm. Gooden, Portsmouth. 
Wells A. Hutchins, Portsmouth. 
H. C. Feurt, Franklin Furnace. 


SENECA COUNTY. 


DELEGATES. 

W. C. Brown, Fostoria. 

B. B. Campbell, Fostoria. 

B. W. Crobaugh, Tiffin. 
Geo. D. Loomis, Tiffin. 

C. C. Parks, Tiffin. 

L. L. Sutton, Attica. 

H. K. Spooner, Republic. 
Chas. Ash, Amsden. 


ALTERNATES. 
Robt. Miller, Tiffin. 

W. H. Kildow, T ffin. 

H. L Wenner, Tiffin. 

J. W. Mickey, Fostoria. 

J. R. Owen, Fostoria. 

J. H. Knapp, Republic. 

W. H. Harmon, Attica. 

R. R. Rule, Green Springs. 


SHELBY COUNTY. 

DELEGATES. ALTERNATES. 

R. O. Bingham, Sidney. C. R. Benjamin, Sidney 

John F. Wilson, Sidney. David Oldham, Sidney. 

Vance H. Robb, Jackson Center. E. E. Harbour, Sidney. 

S. D. Harmon, Port Jefferson. B. T. Bulle, Sidney. 





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NAMES OF DELEGATES AND ALTERNATES. 


STARK COUNTY. 

DELEGATES. 

George E. Baldwin, Canton. 

H. A. Wise, Canton. 

K. W. Harter, Canton. 

J. H. Lehman, Canton. 

T. J. Bidwell, Canton. 

Allen Carnes, Canton. 

Hiram Doll, Canton. 

W. B. Martin, Massillon. 

L. S. Stoehr, Massillon, 

F. S. Hemperly, Massillon. 

Silas J. Williams, Alliance. 

W. H. Morgan, Alliance. 

W. W. King, Alliance. 

C. M. Shafer, Canal Fulton. 

E. J. Smith, Canton. 

G. W. Wilhelm, Justus. 

L. E. McConnell, Beach City. 

J. M. Howenstein, Howenstein. 
C. W. Smith, Osnaburg. 

W. S. Earsman, Louisville. 


SUMMIT COUNTY. 


DELEGATES. 

Geo. W. Crouse, Akron. 
Chas. Dick, Akron. 

A. J. Rowley, Akron. 

L. E. Sisler, Akron. 

Frank Seiberling, Akron. 

L. C. Miles, Akron. 

Albert Hale, Mogadore. 

G. W. Sieber, Akron. 
Aaron Wagoner, Akron. 

W. B. Baldwin, Akron. 

W. G. Johnston, Aultman. 
C. F. Seese, Hudson. 

F. L. Lytle, Copley. 

C. W. Kline, Akron. 

Henry Frederick, Akron. 


ALTERNATES. 

H. W. Hart, Akron. 

D. A. Doyle, Akron. 

G. W. Brewster, Akron. 

C. P. Heller, Bath. 

J. Melton, Akron. 

A. P. Brooks, Macedonia. 

J. A. Kohler, Akron. 

J. M. Jones, Cuyahoga Falls. 
S. Fauble, West Richfield. 

W. M. Hiltabidle, Akron. 

L. S. Ebright, Akron. 

C. W. Walsh, Akron. 



names of delegates and alternates. 

TRUMBULL COUNTY. 


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DELEGATES. 

J. J. Sullivan, Warren. 

T. H. Gilmer, Warren. 

Harry E. King, Newton Falls. 
W. C. Leffingwell, Hartford. 
W. A. Thomas, Niles. 

John Reese, Liberty. 

William Herbert, Niles. 

M. S. Davis, Kinsman. 

J. H. Dilley, Burghill. 
William Wallace, Warren. 


alternates. 

George Predmore, Warren. 
J. S. McAdoo, Bloomfield. 
Jacob Perkins, Warren. 

A. B. Mannix, Vienna. 
Allen Jones, Kinsman. 
George C. Braden, Warren. 
Hiram Greenwood, Vienna. 
L. L. Holloway, Niles. 

C. M. Wilkins, Warren. 

F. S. Chryst, Warren. 


TUSCARAWAS COUNTY. 


• DELEGATES. 

C. H. Ackey, New Philadelphia. 
G. F. Williams, N. Philadelphia. 
W. V. Moody, Uhrichsville. 

S. A. Auld, Dennison. 

S. W. Walters, Gnadenhutten. 

T. E. Willson, Mineral Point. 

D. Diefenbacher, Canal Dover. 
J. H. Peters, Rogersville. 


ALTERNATES. 

W. B. Hostetler, Sugar Creek. 
Henry Bowers, New Philadelphia. 
C. A. Greenlee, Uhrichsville. 

L. P. Willson, New Comerstown. 
A. C. Fowls, Mineral Point. 

L. D. Carroll, Uhrichsville. 

W. C. Knisely, New Philadelphia. 
W. S. Kline, Bolivar. 


UNION COUNTY. 

DELEGATES. ALTERNATES. 

T. N. Brannan, Marysville. Chas. H. Smith, Raymond. 

J. J. Watts, Broadway. Geo. Kilbury, Plain City. 

Nathan Howard, Milford Center. S. D. Kilgore, Watkins. 

W. H. Loveless, New Dover. John Lowe, Magnetic Springs. 
James Guy, Byhalia. B. F.' Robinson, Unionville Cen. 

A. B. Conkright, Richwood. Z. X. Corey, Jerome. 






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NAMES OF DELEGATES AND ALTERNATES. 


VAN WERT COUNTY. 


DELEGATES. 

J. A. Claypool, Delphos. 
H. C. Glenn, Van Wert. 
H. W. Blachly, Van Wert, 
W. T. Hughes, Van Wert. 

G. L. Marble, Van Wert. 

H. Ludwig, Van Wert. 

E. W. Price, Van Wert. 


ALTERNATES. 

J. E. East, Delphos. 

A. Wolf, Van Wert. 

J. S. Stuckey, Van Wert. 

W. T. Mitchner, Van Wert. 

J. O. Clark, Van Wert. 

J. A. Hooper, Dixon. 

E. Pettiford, Washington, D. C. 

1628 Madison St., N. W. 


VINTON COUNTY. 


DELEGATES. 

Robert Barnhill, Ural. 

O. E. Vollenweider, McArthur. 
M. D. Canny, Knox. 

C. O. Dunlap, McArthur. 


WARREN COUNTY. 


DELEGATES. 

O. M. Bake, Mason. 

F. L. Hamilton, Lebanon. 

C. H. Eulass, Lebanon. 

B. F. Clayton, Franklin. 
Robert Andrews, Oregonia. 
Walter Kilbon, Corwin. 

Lisle Hufford, South Lebanon. 


ALTERNATES. 

Philip Spence, Ridgeville. 
Will Roll, Lebanon. 

G. W. Stanley, Lebanon. 

S. S. Tibbals, Franklin. 
Frank Lewis, Morrow. 

Henry Tucker, Harveysburg. 
Morris Snook, Maineville. 


WASHINGTON COUNTY. 


DELEGATES. 

J. H. Riley, Marietta. 

H. G. Bohl, Marietta. 

A. D. Alderman, Marietta. 
T. F. Davis, Marietta. 

R. G. Putnam, Marietta. 

F. B. Leonard, Newport. 
E. L. Brown, Belpre. 

R. S. Gage, Qualey. 

Ralph Bean, Reno. 

E. E. Bates, Elba. 


ALTERNATES. 

S. E. Garrison, Marietta. 

Edward Devol, Marietta. 

T. J. Mellor, Marietta. 

Jason Hart, Marietta. 

Alex Simmons, Waterford. 

Lyman Dutton, Macksburg. 
Lewis Nichols, North Matamoras. 
Roscoe Walcott, Watertown. 

L. T. Morris, Bartlett. 

E. K. Ballard, Fillmore. 




NAMES OF DELEGATES AND ALTERNATES. 


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WAYNE COUNTY. 


DELEGATES. 

M. L. Smyser, Wooster. 
Frank Taggart, Wooster. 
W. J. Mullins, Wooster. 

W. W. Garver, Lattasburg. 
G. D. McIntyre, Orrville. 
S. H. Miller, Doylestown. 
W. A. Craig, Shreve. 


ALTERNATES. 

C. V. Hard, Wooster. 

P. C. Given, Wooster. 

H. H. Hubbell, Wooster. 

J. F. Harrison, Fredericksburg. 
A. Owen, Dalton. 

N. W. Hower, Burbank. 

M. S. Gish, Sterling. 


WILLIAMS COUNTY. 


DELEGATES. 

John Alexander, Edgerton. 
Grant Chilcote, Edon. 
Henry Apt, Kunkle. 

T. E. Schrider, Alvordton. 
A. E. Kissel, West Unity. 
John Coonrod, Striker. 


ALTERNATES. 

Robert Loughead, Cooney. 

F. E. Waterson, Bridgewater. 
C. H. Boon, Montpelier. 

A. Gavin, Melbern. 

John Rogers, West Unity. 
Marion Gillett, Bryan. 


WOOD COUNTY. 


DELEGATES. 

E. S. Bryant, Bloomdale. 

J. O. Troup, Bowling Green. 
John Haen, North Baltimore. 
G. R. Mundweiler, Hoytsville. 
Charles C. Faws, Rudolph. 
Fred Pinert, Haskins. 

C. E. Hyter, Prairie Depot. 

F. H. Thompson, Perrysburg. 
C. S. Rex, Bowling Green. 
Volney Jones, Jerry City. 

Geo. B. Spencer, Weston. 


ALTERNATES. 

M. Hobart, Pemberville. 

M. A. Watson, Grand Rapids. 

W. E. Deibly, North Baltimore. 
W. H. Facer, Millbury. 

Daniel Hill, Milton Center. 

W. W. Long, Rising Sun. 

O. P. Norris, Longley. 

E. M. Warner, East Toledo. 
Owen Goodell, Luckey. 

E. B. Beverstock, Tontogany. 
Robt. Householder, Scotchridge 



NAMES OF DELEGATES AND ALTERNATES. 


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WYANDOT COUNTY, 

DELEGATES. ALTERNATES. 

R. S. Gallagher, Sycamore. Richard Carter, Upper Sandusky. 

Hubert Gregg, Upper Sandusky. A. L. Brown, Little Sandusky. 

C. E. Hockathorn, Marseilles. Dwight Fowler, Harpster. 

Loren Stahl, Carey. C. A. Mills, Nevada. 








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